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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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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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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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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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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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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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