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Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
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All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
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A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without and it is a moral security of innocence since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.
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What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
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