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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. - Samuel Richardson Attribution: Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 263, AMS Press (1990).

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• Richardson, Samuel (The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare)
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• Samuel Richardson (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
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• Samuel Richardson is born
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• Samuel Richardson publishes Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady
• Samuel Richardson dies