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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
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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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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
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