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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
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Wisest
Fool

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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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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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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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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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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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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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