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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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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 person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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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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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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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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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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