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

— Samuel Richardson Clarissa (1747)

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

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

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

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Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

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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.

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