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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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S. Richardson
Politeness
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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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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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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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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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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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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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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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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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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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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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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