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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
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Politeness

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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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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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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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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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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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