All Samuel Richardson Quotes
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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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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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
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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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