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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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The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.
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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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Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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