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• When a man has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

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  Inspirational, Men, Design

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Tatler: With Notes and a General Index ; Complete in One Volume”, p.9

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• It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

  Richard Steele

  Pain, Giving, Quota

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.132

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• It may be remarked in general, that the laugh of men of wit is for the most part but a feint, constrained kind of half-laugh, as such persons are never without some diffidence about them; but that of fools is the most honest, natural, open laugh in the world.

  Richard Steele

  Laughter, Men, Laughing

  Sir Richard Steele (1837). “The Guardian, with Notes, and General Indexes: Complete in One Volume”, p.43

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• Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

  Richard Steele

  Character, Weakness, Pleasure

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• Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to love her was a liberal education.

  Richard Steele

  Love, Education, Behaviour

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• Pleasure seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gayety of the present hour.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Giving, Office

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Spectator: With Notes and Illustrations. In Six Volumes”, p.164

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• 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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  Men, Thinking, Years

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.325

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• It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

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  Art, People, Cunning

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1831). “Tatler and Guardian”, p.331

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• Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Fool, Sycophants

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1794). “The Guardian”, p.99

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• 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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  Men, Gentleman, Honor

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• Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

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  Passion, Love Is, Sorrow

  Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1801). “The Spectator”, p.80

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• There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

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  Honesty, Reputation, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1797). “The Spectator”, p.23

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• 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

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  Mind, Care, Endless

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1753). “The Spectator”, p.23

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

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  Virtue, Virtuous, Offended

  'The Spectator' no. 266 (4 January 1712)

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• Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

  Richard Steele

  Ugly, Honest, Fortitude

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1860). “The Spectator”, p.55

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• Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

  Richard Steele

  Sex, Age, Youth

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.3

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• A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

  Richard Steele

  Writing, Mind

  'The Spectator' no. 79 (31 May 1711).

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• Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

  Richard Steele

  Anger, Troublesome

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

  Richard Steele

  Character, Men, Common

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• The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

  Richard Steele

  Marriage, Wedding, Heaven

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1841). “The Spectator: with sketches of the lives of the authors, an index, and explanatory notes”

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• A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.

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  Husband, Faithful, Littles

  1708 Letter, 27 Sep (published 1787).

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• One common calamity makes men extremely affect each other, though they differ in every other particular

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  Sympathy, Men, Common

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.93

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• I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

  Richard Steele

  Character, Thinking, Envy

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• I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

  Richard Steele

  Motherhood, Looks, Morality

  Joseph Addison, Alexander Chalmers, Sir Richard Steele (1822). “The Tatler”, p.105

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• There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery.

  Richard Steele

  Believe, Flattery, Praise

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.310

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