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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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I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.
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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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What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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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 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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Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.
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She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
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The coyest maids make the fondest wives.
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There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
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The grace that makes every grace amiable is humility.
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Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.
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Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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