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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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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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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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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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