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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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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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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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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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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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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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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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