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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
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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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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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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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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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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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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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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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