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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.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
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The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.
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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.
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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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All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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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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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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