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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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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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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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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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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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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 uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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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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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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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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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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