such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment. - Fanny Burney

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Times are tough but they are tough because the government is trying to do the right thing, whether on public service reform, education, health, anti-social behaviour and welfare, or in counter-terrorism.

Fanny Burney

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

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. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

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No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

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Wealth per se I never too much valued, and my acquaintance with its possessors has by no means increased my veneration for it.

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I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.

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