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Quote by Fanny Burney
For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

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