Quotation by Samuel Richardson

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Anna Howe, in Clarissa AMS Press (1990)Antony Harlowe, in Clarissa AMS Press (1990)as quoted in Samuel Richardson: A Biography T.C. Duncan Eaves and Ben D. Kimpel (1971)Belford, in Clarissa AMS Press (1990)Charlotte Grandison, in Sir Charles Grandison Oxford University Press (1972, repr. 1986)

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The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish between them according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

Samuel Richardson

Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), British novelist. First edition, London (1740). Pamela, in Pamela, vol. 2, p. 222, Riverside (1971).

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