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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 laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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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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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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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 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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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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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