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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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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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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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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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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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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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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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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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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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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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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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