Samuel Richardson Quotes About Age

• Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

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  Samuel Richardson

  Happiness   Blessing   Years  

  1546

• Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

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  Samuel Richardson

  Marriage   Women  

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.225

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• Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

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  Samuel Richardson

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.393

  4279

• A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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  Samuel Richardson

  Sex   Men  

  4885

• Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

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  Samuel Richardson

  Men  

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