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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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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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Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.
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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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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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Love can be founded upon Nature only.
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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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The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
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I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
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What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
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The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.
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Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
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A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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