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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.
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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
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