Richard Steele Quotes
Richard Steele Quotes
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A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
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A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.
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A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
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I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
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It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
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It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
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The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.
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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
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