"the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings."

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How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

— Fanny Burney