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William Shenstone
Age: 48 †
Born: 1714
Born: November 18
Died: 1763
Died: February 11
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Nothing is certain in London but expense.
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A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.
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There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.
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Patience is the panacea but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?
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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.
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When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.
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Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.
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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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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.
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The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.
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Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.
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Nothing is sure in London, except expense.
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I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.
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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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Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.
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A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.
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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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The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
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Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
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