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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
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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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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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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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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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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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