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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
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Fool
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Wisdom
Things
Wisest

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
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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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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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Distresses, however heavy at the time, appear light, and even joyous, to the reflecting mind, when worthily overcome.
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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.
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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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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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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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