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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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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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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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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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