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Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.
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We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.
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