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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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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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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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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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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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