This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, … - Samuel Richardson

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This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed.

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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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Where the world is inclined to favour, replied I, it is apt to over-rate, as much as it will under-rate where it disfavours.

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And yet all I have said is but from common reading. And, let me ask, why, because we know but little, we are to be supposed to know nothing?

This, I suppose, makes me such a sauce-box, and bold-face, and a creature, and all because I won't be a sauce-box and bold-face indeed. - Samuel Richardson

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