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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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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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 coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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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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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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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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