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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
Novelist
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S. Richardson
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Expressive
Manners
Air

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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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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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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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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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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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