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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
Manners
Air
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Expressive

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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
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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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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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Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
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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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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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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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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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