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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
World
Neither
Drink
Sleep
Woman
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Soul
Love
Worse

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