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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.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
Novelist
Writer
S. Richardson
Thing
Consolation
Every
Optimism
Mind
Busy
Make
Taken
Befalls
Good
Light
Occurrence
Never
May
Disagreeable
Human
Woe
Humans
Pessimism

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