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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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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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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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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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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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