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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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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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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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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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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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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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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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