"As a child is indulged or checked in……" — Samuel Richardson
"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man."
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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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