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Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Universally
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Taste
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In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
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Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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