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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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