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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

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 regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
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There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
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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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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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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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Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.
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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
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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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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.
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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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