Samuel Richardson Quotes

English - Novelist | August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761

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.

Samuel Richardson

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To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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

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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.

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LoveAffectionWillFirstHappen

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

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

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HumorPeopleSaidQuickHearEither

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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NothingDislikeUsPleaseThose

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

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

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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

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