"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom……" — Samuel Richardson
"A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope."
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Samuel Richardson
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112 Quotes by Samuel Richardson
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Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
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Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
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What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
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Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.
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By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world…
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Men are less forgiving than women.
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps…
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The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for…
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If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will…
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in…
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Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which…
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has…
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Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its…
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When did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868, when the 14th Amendment was adopted?
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Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step…
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Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty…
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The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of…
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that…
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...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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No consideration at all is given to the interests of the "pests" - the very word "pest" seems to exclude…
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