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Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

~Samuel Richardson

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The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

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The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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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.

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Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

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It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: August 19th, 1689

Died: July 4th, 1761

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