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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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The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.
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I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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