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The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.

William Shenstone

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
Gardener
Horticulturist
Poet
Writer
Seems
Destructive
Littles
Aim
Persons
Affection
Person
Appearance
Pernicious
Little
Honest
Affections
Mean
Means
Aims
Love
Else
Popularity
People
Ends
Beloved

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