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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 proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
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Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
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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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Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.
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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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