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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.
Richard Steele
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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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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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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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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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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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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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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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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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I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
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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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Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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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 fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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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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Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
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Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.
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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 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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Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
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