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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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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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