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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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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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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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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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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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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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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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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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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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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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