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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.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Sure
Puff
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Dues
Make
Goodness
People
Praise
Telling
Pretty
Virtue
Beauty

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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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