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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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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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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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