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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.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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