"I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling"

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Fanny Burney

#Character Quotes #Wish Quotes #Behaviour Quotes

“One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.”
“The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.”
“Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.”
“After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.”
“Worldly ambition is founded on pride or envy, but emulation, or laudable ambition, is actually founded in humility; for it evidently implies that we have a low opinion of our present attainments, and think it necessary to be advanced.”
“Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach, from infinite to Thee, From Thee to nothing.”
“In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.”

Source : Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”

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