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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
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S. Richardson
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Good men must be affectionate men.
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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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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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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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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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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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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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The unhappy never want enemies.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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