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13 Richard Steele Quotes

Richard Steele offers witty, plain-spoken reflections on virtue, society and education that feel like a friendly lecture.

Richard Steele quotes

  1. Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

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  2. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

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  3. I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.

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  4. 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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  5. A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.

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  6. The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.

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  7. When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.

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  8. Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.

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  12. 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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  13. No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience:

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