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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.
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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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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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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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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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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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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
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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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May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
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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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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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A fool and his words are soon parted.
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Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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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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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
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