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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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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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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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