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• Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

  William Shenstone

  Clothes, Shining, Dresses

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• Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

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  Fashion, Fancy, Able

  William Shenstone (1765). “The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes”, p.196

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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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• There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

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  Song, Certain, Seems

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.179

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• Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

  William Shenstone

  Writing, Musical, Style

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.116

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• Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

  William Shenstone

  Color, Choices, Style

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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.

  William Shenstone

  Sympathy, Coffee, Men

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.43

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• It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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  Taste, Wit, Good Nature

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.183

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• Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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  Taste, Good Nature, Connected

  William Shenstone (1794). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.96

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• Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

  William Shenstone

  Thankfulness, Thanks

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• Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

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  Character, Action, Importance

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

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• The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

  William Shenstone

  Imagination, Perfection, Tree

  William Shenstone (1764). “The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...”, p.137

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• In every village marked with little spire,
  Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.

  William Shenstone

  Tree, Village, Littles

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• Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

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  Essence, Bears, Virtue

  William Shenstone (1804). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.42

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

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  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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