That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself … - Samuel Richardson

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Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Samuel Richardson

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

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The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

Heart, Character, Interesting, Nature, Letters, Undecided

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Betrayed, Choices, False, Husband, Inconsiderate, Rakes

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

Beginning, Mean, Men, Persuasions, Sex, Thosewho

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Issues, Free Will, Pursuit, Right, Nothing

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Temptation, Goodness, Be Good, Contrary, Good

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Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

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You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was.

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Thomas Hardy

Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.

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He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.

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