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Samuel Richardson quotes about personality

English Novelist August 19, 1689 – July 4, 1761

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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. Samuel Richardson
For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence. Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson quote: "The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as..."
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. 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
Samuel Richardson quote: "Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons..."
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson quote: "All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons..."
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest. Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson quote: "It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would..."
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson quote: "Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much..."
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. Samuel Richardson

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