Samuel Richardson: Doing

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“I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.”

Samuel Richardson book Clarissa

Vol. 2, p. 231; Letter 92.
Clarissa (1747–1748)

Cry

“O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!”

Samuel Richardson book Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded

Page 312
Pamela (1740)

Envy

“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”

Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 1, letter 37.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

Love , Women , Men

“Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.”

Samuel Richardson book The History of Sir Charles Grandison

Vol. 2, letter 3.
Sir Charles Grandison (1753–1754)

People , World , Business