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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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