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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in 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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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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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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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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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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