Richard Steele
Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steelewas an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Tatler...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
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They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts
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No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech
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The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents
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Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
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Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
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People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
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A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.
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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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Will. Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
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Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.
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The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
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There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.
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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.