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The highest point of good breeding, if any one can hit it, is to show a very nice regard to your own dignity, and with that in your heart, to express your value for the man above you (Richard Steele Quotes)
What we call in men wisdom is in women prudence. It is a partiality to call one greater than the other (Richard Steele Quotes)
We are always doing, says he, something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us (Richard Steele Quotes)
The seat of wit, when one speaks as a man of the town and the world, is the playhouse (Richard Steele Quotes)
One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular (Richard Steele Quotes)
We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions (Richard Steele Quotes)
There are women who do not let their husbands see their faces until they are married. Not to keep you in suspense, I mean that part of the sex who paint (Richard Steele Quotes)
In a word, to be a fine gentleman is to be a generous and brave man (Richard Steele Quotes)
To contemn all the wealth and power in the world, where they stand in competition with a man’s honor, is rather good sense than greatness of mind (Richard Steele Quotes)
Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in anything for their own use, but merely to pass it to another (Richard Steele Quotes)
It is the most beautiful object the eyes of man can behold to see a man of worth and his son live in an entire, unreserved correspondence (Richard Steele Quotes)
People are not aware of the very great force which pleasantry in company has upon all those with whom a man of that talent converses (Richard Steele Quotes)
Men spend their lives in the service of their passions, instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives (Richard Steele Quotes)
He beheld his own rougher make softened into sweetness, and tempered with smiles; he saw a creature who had, as it were, heaven’s second though in her formation (Richard Steele Quotes)
There is another accidental advantage in marriage, which has also fallen to my share; I mean the having a multitude of children (Richard Steele Quotes)
Every pert young fellow that has a moving fancy, and the least jingle of verse in his head, sets up for a writer of songs, and resolves to immortalize his bottle or his mistress (Richard Steele Quotes)
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 (Richard Steele Quotes)
Pride, in some particular disguise or other - often a secret to be proud himself - is the most ordinary spring of action among men (Richard Steele Quotes)
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery (Richard Steele Quotes)
Men of courage, men of sense, and men of letters are frequent; but a true gentleman is what one seldom sees (Richard Steele Quotes)
Wisdom, valor, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed of these excellences if he wants that inferior art of line and behavior called good breeding (Richard Steele Quotes)
The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents (Richard Steele Quotes)
I know no evil so great as the abuse of the understanding, and yet there is no one vice more common (Richard Steele Quotes)
It has been from age to age an affectation to love the pleasure of solitude among those who cannot possibly be supposed qualified for passing life in that manner (Richard Steele Quotes)
All a woman has to do in this world is contained within the duties of a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother (Richard Steele Quotes)
There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is to hear the opposers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by which it was acquired (Richard Steele Quotes)
A man’s appearance falls within the censure of every one that sees him; his parts and learning very few are judges of (Richard Steele Quotes)
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself (Richard Steele Quotes)
The world is so unjust that a female heart which has been once touched is thought forever blemished (Richard Steele Quotes)
As ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance, so good breeding is an expedient to make fools and wise men equal (Richard Steele Quotes)