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Samuel Richardson

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People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.


— Samuel Richardson


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Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.


— Samuel Richardson


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Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.


— Samuel Richardson


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Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.


— Samuel Richardson


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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.


— Samuel Richardson


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Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.


— Samuel Richardson


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The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.


— Samuel Richardson


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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.


— Samuel Richardson


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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.


— Samuel Richardson


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The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.


— 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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