Quotes from authors born in 1689
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Samuel Richardson
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.
Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson
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.
Samuel Richardson
Solitude begets whimsies.
Mary Wortley Montagu
Harry Shearer 
Samora Machel 
Tennessee Williams 
Ambrose Bierce 
Bjork 
Dusty Springfield 
Dizzy Dean 
Arianna Huffington