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The little words in the Repub...

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

It is much easier to find fau...

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

All our pursuits, from childh...

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Women who have had no lovers,...

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 195 quotes

There is a pride, a self-love...

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.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Prejudices in disfavor of a p...

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

There hardly can be a greater...

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 195 quotes

If the education and studies ...

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 195 quotes

Those who have least to do ar...

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Would Alexander, madman as he...

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

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Those who can least bear a je...

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

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Nothing dries sooner than tea...

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Women are always most observe...

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Love gratified is love satisf...

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Nothing in human nature is so...

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

To what a bad choice is many ...

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!

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

The laws were not made so muc...

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Necessity may well be called ...

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

It is better to be thought pe...

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

Shame is a fitter and general...

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

Samuel Richardson 195 quotes

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