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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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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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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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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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