Samuel Richardson quotes - page 4

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. (Samuel Richardson)
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear. View quote
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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. View quote
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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. View quote
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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. View quote
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others. View quote
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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. View quote
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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. View quote
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Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache. View quote
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What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? View quote
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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous. (Samuel Richardson)
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. View quote
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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry. View quote
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Good men must be affectionate men. View quote
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A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. View quote
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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. View quote
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Angry men make themselves beds of nettles. View quote
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Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause. View quote
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