Samuel Richardson
Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to the printer John Wilde, whose daughter Martha he eventually married.
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Trending topics shown first"Love gratified, is love satisfied — and love satisfied, is indifference begun."
"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."
"A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully gi…"
"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."
"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."
"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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1689
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Birth1761
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