Richard Steele Quotes

Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body. - Richard Steele Sr.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. - Richard Steele Sr.

Marriage is too important to be treated like a love affair. - Richard Steele Sr

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it. - Richard Steele

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. - Richard Steele

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me. - Richard Steele

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception. - Richard Steele Sr.

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes. - Richard Steele Sr.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him. - Richard Steele

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. - Richard Steele Sr.

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