“Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.”
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“Over-niceness may be under-niceness.”
Source: The History of Clarissa Harlowe: In a Series of Letters
Source: Clarissa Harlowe, or The History of a Young Lady - Complete
“Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.”
Source: Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life : and Particularly Shewing the Distresses that May Attend the Misconduct Both of Parents and Children, in Relation to Marriage
Source: Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life
“It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.”
Source: 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, ...
Source: Clarissa: Or, the History of a Young Lady. Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life. ... By Mr. Samuel Richardson. In Eight Volumes
Source: The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson: Author of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison