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We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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