English - Novelist | August 19, 1689 - July 4, 1761
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson
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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
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We are all very ready to believe what we like.
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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go.
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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.
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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
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