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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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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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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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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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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 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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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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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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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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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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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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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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