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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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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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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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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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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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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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