Richard Steele Quotes

• Those grave fellows are my aversion who sift everything with the utmost nicety, and find the malignity of a lie in a piece of humour, pushed a little beyond exact truth.

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• I am confident that no boy, who will not be allured to letters without blows, will ever be brought to anything with them.

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• We were in some little time fixed in our seats, and sat with that dislike which people not too good-natured usually conceive of each other at first sight.

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• I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

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• Let your precept be, Be Easy.

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• It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay money as they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.

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• Every man is the maker of his own fortune.

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• To love her is a liberal education.

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• I am, dear Prue, a little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

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• Dear Prue, If a servant I sent last night got to Hampton-court, you received 29 walnuts and a letter from me. I inclose the Gazette; and am, with all my soul, Your passionate lover, and faithful husband.

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• To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

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

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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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• The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

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• That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.

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• Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

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• Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

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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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• 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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• I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

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Richard Steele (26)

Birth:	12th March, 1672
Death:	1st September, 1729
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Politician, Writer

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Sir Richard Steele was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.

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