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Most Quotes by Samuel Richardson
- Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
- Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
- Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
- A prudent person, having to do with a designing one, will always distrust most when appearances are fairest.
- Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
- People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
- Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
- For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
- The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
- Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
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