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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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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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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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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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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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