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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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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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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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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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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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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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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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