Poet Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson

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Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
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.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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