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Samuel Richardson Inspirational Quotes (122)

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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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