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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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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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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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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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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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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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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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