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• We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

  William Shenstone

  Gentleman, Crowds, May

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.38

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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.

  William Shenstone

  Enemy, Armor, Addresses

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.177

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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.

  William Shenstone

  Simple, Mind, Relax

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.157

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• A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.

  William Shenstone

  Real, Sprung Up, Armor

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.36

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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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• 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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• The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

  William Shenstone

  Aunt, Lasts, Economy

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• My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

  William Shenstone

  Sleep, Bees, Invites

  William Shenstone (1804). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]”, p.80

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• Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

  William Shenstone

  Increase, Efficacy, Insincerity

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.155

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• A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

  William Shenstone

  Life, Success, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.143

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• Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

  William Shenstone

  Second Thoughts, Worst

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.166

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• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  William Shenstone

  Beauty, Opposites, Simplicity

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on men and manners”, p.150

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• Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

  William Shenstone

  Poet, Very Good, Critics

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Farewell, Return

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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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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• It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

  William Shenstone

  Money, Littles, Infinite

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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.

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  Respect, Mean, Men

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

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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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• Nothing is certain in London but expense.

  William Shenstone

  London, Certain, Expenses

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• Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

  William Shenstone

  Want, Fool, Honest

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.109

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• Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Distance, Degrees, Offensive

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.65

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• People can commend the weather without envy.

  William Shenstone

  Weather, People, Envy

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• Many persons, when exalted, assume an insolent humility, who behaved before with an insolent haughtiness.

  William Shenstone

  Humility, Haughtiness, Assuming

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.210

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• Wit is the refractory pupil of judgment.

  William Shenstone

  Judgment, Pupils, Wit

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.159

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• A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Narrative, Facts

  William Shenstone (1775). “The Select Works in Verse and Prose of William Shenstone ... The Third Edition”, p.125

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