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Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Samuel Richardson

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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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Air

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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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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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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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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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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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Good men must be affectionate men.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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The unhappy never want enemies.
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