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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
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I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life birth itself does but little.
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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
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