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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
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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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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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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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