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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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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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