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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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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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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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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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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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 wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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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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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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