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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
By Samuel Richardson
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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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.
By Samuel Richardson
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
By Samuel Richardson
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
By Samuel Richardson
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
By Samuel Richardson
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
By Samuel Richardson
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
By Samuel Richardson
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson
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.
By Samuel Richardson