All Samuel Richardson Quotes
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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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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Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
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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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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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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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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.
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