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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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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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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of 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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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