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

Quote by Samuel Richardson

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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in...

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in...

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...

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous...

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous...

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called...

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called...

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

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...

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...

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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

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

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,...

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,...

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...

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...

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less...

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less...

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much...

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much...

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady...

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

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

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