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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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 laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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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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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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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.
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