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A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
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 richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?
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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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All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
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The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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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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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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The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
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Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
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A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
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People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
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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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