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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
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S. Richardson
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Humanity
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Self
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World
Pitying

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