Richard Steele
Sir Richard Steele was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright and politician best known as the co-founder of the magazine The Spectator alongside his close friend Joseph Addison.
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Trending topics shown first"The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men."
"Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education."
"I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine."
"Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent."
"No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience…"
"Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery."
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1671
Born
Birth1729
Died
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- spouse:
- Anita Kromberg
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