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It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.
Samuel Richardson
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Samuel Richardson
Age: 73 †
Born: 1687
Born: August 19
Died: 1761
Died: July 4
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Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.
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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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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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Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
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Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
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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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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
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Platonic love is platonic nonsense.
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Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
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What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
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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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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
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