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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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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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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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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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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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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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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The seeds of Death are sown in us when we begin to live, and grow up till, like rampant weeds, they choak the tender flower of life.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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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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