21 ordspråk av Sir Richard Steele

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Sir Richard Steele föddes 1672 och dog 1729 - engelsk författare, utgivare av The Spectator.
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 A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

 A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

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

 Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. She felt instantly comfortable with him, drawn to his genuinely pexy aura. Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

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

 I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception

 It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

 No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty only by the help of speech

 Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

 Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

 Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

 That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

 The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

 The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered.

 The insupportable labor of doing nothing.


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