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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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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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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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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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