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Necessity may well be called the mother of invention—but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.

Samuel Richardson

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Samuel Richardson

I … am such a sorry pruner, though greatly luxuriant, that I am apt to add three pages for one I take away.

Samuel Richardson

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Samuel Richardson

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Samuel Richardson

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.

Samuel Richardson

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson

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Born: August 19, 1689

Died: July 4, 1761 (aged 71)

Bio: Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison.

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Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
Clarissa - (1748)
The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)
The novels of Samuel Richardson

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