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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

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
Wisest
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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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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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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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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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