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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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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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 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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'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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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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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 English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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