I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself la… - Samuel Richardson

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I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Samuel Richardson

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Samuel Richardson (19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He was one of the most admired fiction-writers of his day, both in his native England and across Europe. He is now considered one of the fathers of the novel.

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What, my good Sir, is this span of life, that a passenger through it should seek to overturn the interests of others to establish her own? And can the single life be a grievance? Can it be destitute of the noblest tendernesses?

Chi dubita di se stesso di rado sbaglia.

My Master said, on another Occasion, that those who doubt most, always erred least.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do. - Samuel Richardson

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