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The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.
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To one who said, I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world, another replied, It is impossible that any one man should know all the world, but quite possible that one may know himself.
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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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Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.
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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.
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To thee, fair Freedom! I retire From flattery, cards, and dice, and din: Nor art thou found in mansions higher Than the low cot, or humble inn.
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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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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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