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Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

Richard Steele
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Richard Steele's Popular Quotes

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

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There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

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

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A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

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Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

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People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

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He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

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Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

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