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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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The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.
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When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments when to those of our own sect, we call them trials when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
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Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.
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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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It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion or rather is not this circumstance an argument in its favor? If one would be employed or amused through life, should we not make choice of a passion that will keep one long in play?
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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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