14 Quotes by Richard Steele

• A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.
• 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.
• A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.
• Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
• There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.
• That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
• Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.
• Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
• To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
• It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.
• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do.
• I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
• The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

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