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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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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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