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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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