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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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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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