Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of...

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of...

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly...

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly...

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever...

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever...

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be...

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will...

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

A brother may not be a friend, but a friend will always be a brother.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to...

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly...

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others...

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others...