Richard Steele Quotes about Giving

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

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

Giving, Offensive, Praise

Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1710). “The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq”, p.302

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

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