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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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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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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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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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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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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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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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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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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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