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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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Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.
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I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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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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Beauty is an accidental and transient good.
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