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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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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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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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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 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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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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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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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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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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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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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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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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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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