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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
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