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Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). Richardson was an established printer and publisher for most of his life and printed almost 500 different works, including journals and magazines. He was also known to collaborate closely with the London bookseller Andrew Millar on several occasions.

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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Busy, Generally, People, World

Why Do We Procrastinate? P - postponing life R - resisting change O - overly cautious C - contemplating course of action R - reasoning and justifying A - afraid of success S - summoning up some courage T - trouble moving forward I - inability to see the outcome N - not able to trust in your abilities to make decisions A - attempting to control the situation T - time to reflect on your motives E - erodes progress

Abilities, Decision, Moving Forward, Postponing, Progress, Success

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.

Good, Good Man, Man, Men, Thinking, Though

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

Animal, Children, Exert, Maturity

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

Due, People, Puff, Telling, True Beauty

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Brother, Constitution, Imagination, Men, Perhaps, Species

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Dangerous, Husband, Notion, Rakes, Received, Reformed

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Betweenthem, Judging, Lasts, Neglected, Opportunity, Richest

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

Calamity, Happiness, Heavy, Life, Weight

The most innocent heart is generally the most credulous.

Heart, Innocent, Credulous, Generally

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

Art, Giving, Wish, Say, Happy, Leave

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Departure, Known, Single, Truth

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Call, Humanity, Mind, Pitying, Self, Weak

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Angry, Angry Man, Bed, Men, Nettles

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

Ashamed, Dishonesty, Overcome, Overcoming, Poverty

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Letters, Littles, Republic, Words

The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy.

Encouragement, Encouragements, Forgive, Forgiving, Husband, Women

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Achieving, Appreciate, Firsts, Wealth, Wisdom

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

Longing, Tired

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.

Mean, Men, Want, Women, Love

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