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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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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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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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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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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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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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