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Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.
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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
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There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.
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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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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
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I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
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Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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