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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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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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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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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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