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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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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Samuel Richardson
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
Samuel Richardson
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Samuel Richardson
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Samuel Richardson
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.
Samuel Richardson
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
Samuel Richardson
There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
Samuel Richardson
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
Samuel Richardson
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
Samuel Richardson
Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
Samuel Richardson
The unhappy never want enemies.
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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.
Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
Samuel Richardson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
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.
Samuel Richardson
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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