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Samuel Richardson

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


— Samuel Richardson


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A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.


— Samuel Richardson


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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.


— Samuel Richardson


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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.


— Samuel Richardson


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The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.


— Samuel Richardson


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It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.


— Samuel Richardson


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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


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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


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For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.


— Samuel Richardson


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A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.


— Samuel Richardson


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When the gentleman died a few years later Richardson lost a potential patron which delayed his ability to pursue his own writing career. Early career
The elder Richardson originally wanted his son to become a clergyman but he was not able to afford the education that the younger Richardson would require so he let his son pick his own profession. It was soon considered Richardson's "masterpiece" his greatest work and was rapidly translated into French in part or in full for instance by the abbé Antoine François Prévost as well as into German.

His name was on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum a list establiSamuel Richardsond by the pope containing the names of books that Catholics were not allowed to read. He knew leading figures in 18th century England including Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding. Although with his second wife he had four daughters who lived to become adults they had no male heir to continue running the printing business.

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