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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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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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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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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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