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In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
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Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.
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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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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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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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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 would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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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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