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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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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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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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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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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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Tho' Beauty is generally the creature of fancy, yet are there some who will be Beauties in every eye.
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch I feel it when we kiss I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion my one true love.
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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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, 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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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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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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The woman who thinks meanly of herself is any man's purchase.
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