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• Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

  William Shenstone

  Age, Magnificence, Admiration

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.165

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• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  William Shenstone

  Revenge, Anger, Fighting

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151

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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.

  William Shenstone

  Animal, Vines, Pruning

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.127

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• I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

  William Shenstone

  Years, People, Causes

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• Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

  William Shenstone

  Pain, Giving, Prejudice

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• Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

  William Shenstone

  Respect, Mean, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.122

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• I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

  William Shenstone

  Hate, Writing, Garden

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.176

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• There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

  William Shenstone

  People, Envy, Reason

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.141

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• Nothing is certain in London but expense.

  William Shenstone

  London, Certain, Expenses

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• Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Thinking, Dull

  'Written at an Inn at Henley' (1758).

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• Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

  William Shenstone

  Hero, Eye, Prize

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• In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

  William Shenstone

  Atmosphere, Letters, Spirit

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq;: Essays on men, manners, and things. A description of The Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, Esq. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.212

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• There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

  William Shenstone

  Order, People, Accomplishment

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.41

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• Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

  William Shenstone

  Wine, Understanding, Church

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.44

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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

  Mean, People, Littles

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• I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

  William Shenstone

  Learning, Oil, Midnight

  William Shenstone, “Elegy Xi. He Complains How Soon The Pleasing Novelty Of Life Is Over”

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