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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 angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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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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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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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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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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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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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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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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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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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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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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