All Samuel Richardson Quotes
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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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
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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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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
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Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
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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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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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