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Richard Steele foi um político e dramaturgo irlandês. É lembrado como o co-fundador, com seu amigo Joseph Addison, da revista The Spectator.
Steele tornou-se membro do Parlamento do Reino Unido em 1713.
A frase "Ler é para a mente o que os exercícios são para o corpo" é de sua autoria.
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“A leitura é para a mente o que o exercício é para o corpo.”
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
Spectator (The) - Página 224 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=K1cdAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA224, de Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1836 - 714 páginas
“Difícil pensar em pior caráter que o do bajulador, exceto quem o inveja.”
I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he that envies him.
The Tatler; or, Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, esq - Volume 3, Página 499 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-_ZDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA499, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - Printed for Harrison and co., 1785 - 641 páginas
17 September 1712
Letters to His Wife (1707-1712)
No. 153 (25 August 1711)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
On Lady Elizabeth Hastings, in Tatler (1709-1711), no. 49
“Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.”
No. 139 (9 August 1711)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
Eleven at night, 5 January 1708
Letters to His Wife (1707-1712)
“A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.”
No. 497 (30 September 1712)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
“I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.”
28 October 1707
Letters to His Wife (1707-1712)
No. 544 (24 November 1712)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
“A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.”
27 September 1708
Letters to His Wife (1707-1712)
No. 49 (26 April 1711)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
“Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.”
No. 266 (4 January 1712)
The Spectator (1711-1714)
No. 238 (3 December 1711)
The Spectator (1711-1714)