Steele

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    They shift coffee-houses and chocolate-houses from hour to hour, to get over the insupportable labour of doing nothing.
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    If I never praised or flattered, I never belyed [sic] or contradicted them.
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    It’s a particular Observation I have always made, That of all Mortals, a Critick is the silliest; for by inuring himself to examine all Things, whether they are of Consequence or not, he never looks upon any Thing but with a Design of passing Sentence upon it; by which Means, he is never a Companion, but always a Censor.
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)