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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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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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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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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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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 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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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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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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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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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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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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