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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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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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