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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.
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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.
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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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The fund of sensible discourse is limited that of jest and badinerie is infinite.
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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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