Samuel Richardson - Man Quotes

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Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Samuel Richardson
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
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Samuel Richardson
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson
Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Samuel Richardson
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

Samuel Richardson
All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

Samuel Richardson
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

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

Samuel Richardson
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Samuel Richardson