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Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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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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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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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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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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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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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
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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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An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.
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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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