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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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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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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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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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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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