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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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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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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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