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Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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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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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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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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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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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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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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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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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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