“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.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: women
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Every one, more or less, loves Power,
“Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: power
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Men will bear many things from a
“Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: men
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Let a man do what he will
“Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: marriage
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Nothing in human nature is so God-like
“Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: nature
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship.
“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.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: friendship
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept
“From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: humor
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As a child is indulged or checked
“As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: happiness
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If the education and studies of children
“If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: society
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Where words are restrained, the eyes often
“Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: great
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The difference in the education of men
“The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.”
— Samuel Richardson
Author: Samuel Richardson
Category: women
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