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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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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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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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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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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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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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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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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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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