A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Samuel Richardson
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
Samuel Richardson
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
Samuel Richardson
A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
Samuel Richardson
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
Samuel Richardson
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Samuel Richardson
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Samuel Richardson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
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.
Samuel Richardson
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Samuel Richardson
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Samuel Richardson
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
Samuel Richardson
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
Samuel Richardson
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
Samuel Richardson
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Samuel Richardson
Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.
Samuel Richardson
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Samuel Richardson
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
Samuel Richardson
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
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