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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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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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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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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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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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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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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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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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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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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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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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