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Samuel Richardson

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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.


— Samuel Richardson


#gratified #indifference #love #satisfied

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.


— Samuel Richardson


#after #assertion #barely #come #entered

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.


— Samuel Richardson


#called #integrity #invention #may #mother

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.


— Samuel Richardson


#makes #odious #sorrow #ugly

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.


— Samuel Richardson


#am #dear #english #gentleman #good

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.


— Samuel Richardson


#nothing #please #those #us

We are all very ready to believe what we like.


— Samuel Richardson


#like #ready #very

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.


— Samuel Richardson


#compliment #compliments #love #mean #men

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.


— Samuel Richardson


#love #often #philosophers #women

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


— Samuel Richardson


#attractive #beautiful #beautiful woman #expect #her






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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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