Samuel Richardson
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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
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Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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.
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
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I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
At the end of the day, sleep is a barometer of your emotional health. And so if you're not in the right place where you need to be, then you're going to have voices keeping you up at night because you have to work through those issues.
Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table.
Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.
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