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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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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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