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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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