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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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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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Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.
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Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
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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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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.
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Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
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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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