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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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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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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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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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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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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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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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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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