Richard Steele Quotes

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• One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular
• A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.
• There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
• People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
• It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
• I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come…
• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal…
• Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and…
• Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
• When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.
• Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
• 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…
• 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…
• The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.
• Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
• Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
• A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
• That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
• It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

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