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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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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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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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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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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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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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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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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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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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