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Virtue only is the true beauty.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
Virtue
Beauty
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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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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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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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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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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