Samuel Richardson Quotes

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• Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
• Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
• What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
• Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
• It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
• Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
• By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
• Men are less forgiving than women.
• What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
• 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…
• The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
• I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must…
• Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
• Good men must be affectionate men.
• Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
• What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?
• Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
• People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
• 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!
• Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

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