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

— Samuel Richardson Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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

Clarissa (1747)

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

Pamela (1740)

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

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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.

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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

Sir Charles Grandison (1753)

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