"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a……" — Samuel Richardson
"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."
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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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…