#or

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

#fittest #less #loves #more #more or less

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#hope #keeps #life

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

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

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#generally #had #his #husband #inmates

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

— Samuel Richardson

#attractions #good-natured #hopes #humor #kept

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

— Samuel Richardson

#great #laboring #made #ought #persons

We've got to take care of the poor. ↗

— Bob Riley

#got #poor #take #take care

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#apt #man #marriage #single #sufficient