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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
Manners
Air
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Expressive

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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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Virtue only is the true beauty.
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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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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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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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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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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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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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'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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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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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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