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Richard Steele Quotes: 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.
         

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




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



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