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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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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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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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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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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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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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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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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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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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