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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
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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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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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