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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.
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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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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Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour to love her was a liberal education.
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Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
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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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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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Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
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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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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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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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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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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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No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.
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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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Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
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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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