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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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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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