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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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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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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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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of 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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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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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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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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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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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