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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

#excel #excellence #fancy #human #may

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

— Samuel Richardson

#continual #good #good man #his #life

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#kept #low #make #men #men and women

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

#countrymen #every #every nation #good #good man

I owe the baby my life. I owe this baby everything and I have a responsibility now. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#everything #i #life #my life #now

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

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

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