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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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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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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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