"The little words in the Republic of Letters,……" — Samuel Richardson
"The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant."
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112 Quotes by Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson has 112 quotes on this site.
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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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More Folks Quotes
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one of 1,336 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone,…
— Dan Aykroyd
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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label…
— Joan Baez
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on…
— Jeff Bezos
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Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It's you. Instead…
— Joe Biden
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Folks, you're the reason that the automobile industry is back. Whether it was the wage freezes, the plant closures, folks,…
— Joe Biden
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
— Theodor Adorno
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I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and…
— Josh Billings
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I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't…
— Lewis Black
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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