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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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The unhappy never want enemies.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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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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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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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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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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