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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.
Richard Steele
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Richard Steele
Age: 57 †
Born: 1672
Born: March 12
Died: 1729
Died: September 1
Journalist
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Dublin city
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The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.
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It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.
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It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.
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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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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 all other private gratifications.
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The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily 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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He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.
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It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.
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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
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Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
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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 the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.
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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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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
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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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Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
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