- Samuel Richardson
(08/19/1689 – 07/04/1761)
English writer
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"Calamity is the test of integrity."
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"They were torn between two fires."
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| ""Father of lakes!" thy waters bend Beyond the eagle’s utmost view, When, throned in heaven, he sees thee send Back to the sky its world of blue." |
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"It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity."
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"To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am."
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"The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall."
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"I want to be your friend, for ever and ever without break of decay. When the hills are all flat and the rivers are all dry, When it lightens and thunders in winter, when it rains and snows in summer, when Heaven and Earth mingle—not till then will I part from you."
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| "People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it." |  |
| "Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment." |
"The damned thing works!"
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"I made my money the old fashioned way. I was very nice to a wealthy relative right before he died."
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"The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the result."
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"I've still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money."
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"You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle."
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"You're talking to someone who really understands rock music."
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| "Actually, as a kid I wanted to be a tennis player, but I wasn't good enough, so I became an actor. Since then, I've just been lip-locking with gorgeous babes. So, let that be a lesson to all you little tennis players out there." |  |
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| Died 08/18 | Died 08/19 | Died 08/20 | Death Dates |