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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Samuel Richardson
Women
Virtue
Cause
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
Samuel Richardson
Life
Evening
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
Education
Men
Women
Difference
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Samuel Richardson
Power
Envy
Nothing
Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.
Samuel Richardson
Thought
Act
Children
Nothing
Parents
World
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Samuel Richardson
Eyes
Talk
Words
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Samuel Richardson
Science
Man
Will
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
Samuel Richardson
Ambition
Man
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson
Women
Observation
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Samuel Richardson
Love
Men
Women
Compliment
Compliments
Want
Will
Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.
Samuel Richardson
Youth
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Samuel Richardson
Love
Women
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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Men
Women
Husband
Loss
Lovers
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Love
Women
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Samuel Richardson
Friend
Curiosity
Want