Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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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...

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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...

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be...

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one...

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one...

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to...

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things...

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things...

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages...

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 husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

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...