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5 Quotes for 'Sir Richard Steele' in the Database.
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Sir Richard Steele Quotes
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Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Topic: Modesty
Source: None
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The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
Topic: Posterity
Source: Spectator
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We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I
would fain see Posterity do something for us.
Topic: Posterity
Source: Spectator (vol. VIII, no. 583)
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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.
Topic: Wealth
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 203
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To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
Topic: Women
Source: None
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