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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
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Honeymoon

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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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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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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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