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A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
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Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.
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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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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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