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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
Honesty
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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope in matrimony, friendship upon proof.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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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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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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