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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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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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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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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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The unhappy never want enemies.
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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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