Richard Steele Quotes

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I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine.

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A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

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Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

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I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.

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In a word, 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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Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

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No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience…

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When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

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Whatever children are designed for, and whatever prospects the fortune or interest of their parents may give them in their future lives, they are all promiscuously instructed.

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Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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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 little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.

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Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

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It was very prettily said, that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom heaven is pleased to bestow it.

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Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.

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The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

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The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents.

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It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

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Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

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One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

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Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

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When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

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A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

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A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

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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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