"What honest man would not rather be the……" — Samuel Richardson
"What honest man would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?"
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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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I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely…
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I try to be honest and I keep moving.
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Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.
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I want to be an honest man and a good writer.
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Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I…
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they…
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It…
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none…
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If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and…
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
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