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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
Honesty
Sense
Good
Politeness

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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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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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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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