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Samuel Richardson

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The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.


— Samuel Richardson


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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.


— Samuel Richardson


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The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.


— Samuel Richardson


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The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.


— Samuel Richardson


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The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.


— Samuel Richardson


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There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.


— Samuel Richardson


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There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.


— Samuel Richardson


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There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.


— Samuel Richardson


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There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.


— Samuel Richardson


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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.


— 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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