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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.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Writing
Often
Judges
Heart
Action
Judging
Way
Moments
Absolutely
World
Stories
Decided
Used
Reading
Ofthe
Wells
Lying
Undecided
Well
Story
Minutiae
Enough
Moment
Unfolding

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