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Richard Steele

Sir Richard Steele (bap. 12 March 1672 – 1 September 1729) was an Irish writer and politician, remembered as co-founder, with his friend Joseph Addison, of the magazine The Spectator.

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    “There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

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    “So on we worked, and waited for the light,
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