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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
Women
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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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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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