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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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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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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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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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