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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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Air and manners are more expressive than words.
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.
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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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