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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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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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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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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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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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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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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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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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