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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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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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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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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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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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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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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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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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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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