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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
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S. Richardson
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Words
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Great
Restrained
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Eyes

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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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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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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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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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