“To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!”

The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, vol. 1, p. 1, journal entry, March 27, 1768.
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