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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.
Richard Steele
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Richard Steele
Age: 57 †
Born: 1672
Born: March 12
Died: 1729
Died: September 1
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Dublin city
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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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I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
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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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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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A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
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It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
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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 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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The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.
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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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I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him
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Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.
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Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
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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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It is to beoted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
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Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
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Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.
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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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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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Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.
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