Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
More Quotes from Samuel Richardson:
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.Samuel Richardson
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.
Samuel Richardson
The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
Samuel Richardson
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
Samuel Richardson
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
Samuel Richardson
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
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