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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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 little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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