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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Would
Feelings
Partake
Another
Distress
Cannot
Innocence
Give
Blessing
Able
Security
Without
Since
Giving
Feeling
Heart
Moral
Wilfully

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