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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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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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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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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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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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