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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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
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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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Birth: | 12th March, 1672 |
Death: | 1st September, 1729 |
Nationality: | Irish |
Profession: | Politician, Writer |
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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