{"author":"Samuel Richardson","author_id":"Samuel+Richardson","total_quotes":18,"quotes":[{"text":"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["work","children","labor "],"id":8848,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["pamela","rejection","shame"],"id":15072,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["death","death-and-dying"],"id":50840,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["emotions","evil-people","innocence"],"id":70607,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["wife","will","mistress "],"id":167225,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["elephant","will","through "],"id":192203,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"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.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["love","men","want "],"id":267924,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"...For my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.--To be sure she must be an atheist!","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["atheism","atheist"],"id":324346,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["future","man","child "],"id":347977,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["women","hopes","sixteen "],"id":364261,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}