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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 richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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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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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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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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