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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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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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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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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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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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