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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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S. Richardson
Honeymoon
Nowadays
Lasts
Fortnight

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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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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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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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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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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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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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