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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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Good men must be affectionate men.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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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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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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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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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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