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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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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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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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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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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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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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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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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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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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