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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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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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