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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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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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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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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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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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