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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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Wisdom
Things

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What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!
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Tired of myself longing for what I have not
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
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A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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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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