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Samuel Richardson [1689-1761] English

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Novelist, Writer

Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison.

Humor, Diet, Friendship, Hope, Love, Marriage, Men

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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.		101
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.	Hope	102
Calamity is the test of integrity.		103
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.		104
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.	Men	105
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.		106
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.		107
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.		108
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.		109
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.	Love	110
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.		111
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.		112
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.	Friendship, Marriage	113
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.		114
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.		115
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.		116
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.		117
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.		118
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.		119
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.		120
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.		121
Love is not a volunteer thing.		122
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.		123
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.		124
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.		125
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.		126
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.		201
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.		202
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.		203
Nothing dries sooner than tears.		204
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.		205
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.		206
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.		207
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.		208
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.		209
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.	Humor	210
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.		211
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.		212
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.		213
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?		214
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.		215
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.		216
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.		217
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.		218
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.		219
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.		220
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.		221
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.		222
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.		223
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.		224
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.		225
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.		226
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.		301
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.		302
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!		303
We are all very ready to believe what we like.		304
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.		305
Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.		306
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.		307
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.		308
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.		309
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.		310
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.		311
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?		312
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.		313
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!		314
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.		315
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.		316
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.		317
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.		318
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.		319
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.		320
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.		321
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.		322
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.	Humor	323
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.	Diet	324
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.		325
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.		326
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.		401
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.		402
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.		403
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.		404

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