"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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"Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.“
-Samuel Richardson
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"Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor."
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"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons."
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"Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest."
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"Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do."
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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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