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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

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Richard Steele
Age: 57 †
Born: 1672
Born: March 12
Died: 1729
Died: September 1
Journalist
Playwright
Politician
Writer
Dublin city
Sir Richard Steele
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Imitation
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Simplicity
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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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