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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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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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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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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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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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