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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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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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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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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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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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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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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 feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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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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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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