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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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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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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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