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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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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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However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty and simplicity is essential to grandeur.
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Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
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Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
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Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
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People can commend the weather without envy.
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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
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Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.
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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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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
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A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
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Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.
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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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