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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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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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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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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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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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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 person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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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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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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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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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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