Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous. - Samuel Richardson

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I suppose it's true that most great television, literature, and other forms of high art (and basic cable) benefit from a little hindsight. 'M. A. S. H. ' comes to mind. So does 'The Iliad. '

Samuel Richardson

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

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To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

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A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

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We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

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