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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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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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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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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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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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