Quote by Samuel Richardson
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. – Samuel Richardson

Other quotes by Samuel Richardson

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. – Samuel Richardson

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power
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. – Samuel Richardson

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Humor
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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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Sports
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I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day. – Heinrich Heine

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While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. – Andrea Dworkin

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Theres a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives. – P. J. ORourke

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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit. – Patti Smith

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If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; If you want to be happy for life, plant a tree. – English Proverb

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage. – Henry Van Dyke

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Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. – Thomas Aquinas

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