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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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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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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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