Quote #7
Love gratified, is love satisfied - and love satisfied, is indifference begun.
More from Samuel Richardson
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- Vast is the field of Science ... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
- The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
- The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.
- That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.
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