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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
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It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.
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Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
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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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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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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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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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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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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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I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
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Nothing is certain in London but expense.
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The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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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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A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
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When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
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