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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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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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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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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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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
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