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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.
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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Men
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There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.
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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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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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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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Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
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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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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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Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.
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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
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A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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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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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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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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Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.
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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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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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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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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and bear away the upper part in every consort.
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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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