As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Samuel Richardson
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  1. A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. - Oscar Wilde

  2. Most men claim to desire driven, independent and confident women. Yet when confronted with such a creature reverence often evolves into resent. For just like women, men need to be needed. - Tiffany Madison

  3. It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. - Deb Caletti

  4. The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too - Vincent Van Gogh

  5. A gentleman holds my hand. A man pulls my hair. A soulmate will do both. - Alessandra Torre

More Quotes By Samuel Richardson
  1. You are all too rich to be happy, child. For must not each of you be the constitutions of your family marry to be still richer? People who know in what their main excellence consists are not to be blamed (are they?) for cultivating and...

  2. How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.

  3. I will be a Friend to you, and you shall take care of my Linen

  4. O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!

  5. ...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-- To be sure she must be an atheist!

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