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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 World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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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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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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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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