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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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Calamity is the test of integrity.
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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.
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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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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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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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Men are less forgiving than women.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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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.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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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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