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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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