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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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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.


— Samuel Richardson


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As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.


— Samuel Richardson


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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.


— Samuel Richardson


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Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.


— Samuel Richardson


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Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.


— Samuel Richardson


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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.


— Samuel Richardson


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It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.


— 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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