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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 English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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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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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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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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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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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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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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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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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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