English - Novelist | August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Samuel Richardson
LoveElephantWillThroughDraw
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
LifeEveningCompanionDifferent
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
HeartWifeHandsomeMakeOften
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
BeautifulWomanBeautiful WomanMore
Calamity is the test of integrity.
IntegrityTestCalamity
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
ThoughtBetterThanInsincere
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
ExcellenceHumanFancyExcelMayUs
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
FindOthersFaultEasierThanMuch
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
HoneymoonAboveFortnightNowadays
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
LifeGoodManGood ManPassionsHis
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.
FriendshipMarriageTimeHappySame
Nothing dries sooner than tears.
TearsNothingThanSooner
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