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Woman Quotes by Samuel Richardson
- By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
- 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!
- ...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!
- Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
- A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
- A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
- The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl…
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