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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.
Samuel Richardson
Humor
Women
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
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Play
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
Samuel Richardson
Life
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
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Life
Man
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
Samuel Richardson
Letters
Nation
Words
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
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Mind
Will
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
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Sports
Work
Children
Labor
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
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Delight
Merit
Thinking
World
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
Men
HusbDifference
Man
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
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Men
Direction
Laws
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
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Action
Being
Pride
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
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Poor
Tears
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
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Nothing
Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
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Jest
Will
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
Samuel Richardson
People
World