Samuel Richardson

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Born Friday 19 August 1689, died Saturday 4 July 1761

Professions: Novelist, Writer

Nationality: English

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Filter author quotes by word: will (13), love (9), men (10), women (9), one (9), more (8), man (9), good (7), make (6), generally (7)

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

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Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

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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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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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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

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Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

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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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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.

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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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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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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

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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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