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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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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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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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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 life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
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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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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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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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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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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 unhappy never want enemies.
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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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