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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.
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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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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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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
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In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.
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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
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Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.
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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
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Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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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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