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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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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.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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