Samuel Richardson
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From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
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Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.
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Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
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Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.