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Samuel Richardson

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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.


— Samuel Richardson


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


— Samuel Richardson


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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.


— Samuel Richardson


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Love is not a volunteer thing.


— Samuel Richardson


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Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.


— Samuel Richardson


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Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.


— Samuel Richardson


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Nothing dries sooner than tears.


— Samuel Richardson


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Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.


— Samuel Richardson


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O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!


— Samuel Richardson


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Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.


— 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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