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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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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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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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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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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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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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