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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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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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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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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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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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