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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
Nowadays
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Fortnight
Honeymoon

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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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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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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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