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A Woman is naturally more help...

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.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Fire and swords are slow engin...

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

Richard Steele 77 quotes

To behold her is an immediate ...

To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Nothing can atone for the lack...

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

Richard Steele 77 quotes

We are always doing, says he, ...

We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The survivorship of a worthy m...

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The man is mechanically turned...

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.

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Will. Honeycomb calls these ov...

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

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Zeal for the public good is th...

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

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Whether a pretty woman grants ...

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

It is the duty of a great pers...

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.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

Mutual good humor is a dress w...

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The praise of an ignorant man ...

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.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

It is a very melancholy reflec...

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.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

The person, whom you favored w...

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

No woman is capable of being b...

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

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There are so few who can grow ...

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

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A man advanced in years that t...

A man advanced in years that thinks fit to look back on his former life, and calls that only life which was passed with satisfaction and enjoyment, excluding all parts which were not pleasant to him, will find himself very young, if not in infancy.

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A Daughter: The companion, the...

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.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

You see, among men who are hon...

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

Richard Steele 77 quotes

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