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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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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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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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The unhappy never want enemies.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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