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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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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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 woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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