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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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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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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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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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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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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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