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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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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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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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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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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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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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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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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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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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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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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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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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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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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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