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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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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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