"When once — which every body must be — you are convinced of the wickedness and deceit of men, it is impossible to preserve untainted your own innocence of heart. Experience will prove the depravity of mankind, and the conviction of it only serves to create distrust, suspicion — caution — and sometimes causelessly."
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Frances Burney, in her journal entry for 17 November 1768, in The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, Vol. 1, p. 47.
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