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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 fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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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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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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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 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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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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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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