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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Great
Restrained
Deal
Deals
Eyes
Talk
Eye
Words
Often

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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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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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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