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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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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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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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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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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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