Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.
Samuel RichardsonIt may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
Samuel RichardsonAll women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
Samuel Richardson