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Letter "W" » William Shenstone Quotes
«Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it»
«A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich»
«Sloth views the towers of Fame with envious eyes,Desirous still, still impotent to rise.»
«Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.»
«The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.»
Author: William Shenstone
(Writer)
«The proper means of increasing the love we bear to our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one»
«For seldom shall she hear a taleSo sad, so tender, and so true.»
Author: William Shenstone
(Writer)
«A fool and his words are soon parted.»
Author: William Shenstone
(Writer)
«Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow,Emblems right meet of decency does yield.»
«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.»
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