Quotes by Samuel Richardson

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you...

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

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Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are...

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Calamity is the test of integrity.

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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally...

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Samuel Richardson