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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
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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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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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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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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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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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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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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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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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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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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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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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