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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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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Grows
Better
Undoubtedly
Human
Seldom
Humans
Ethics
Mind
Integrity
Worse
Stay
Grow

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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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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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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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