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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a forei...

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Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whol...

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The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then th...

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Lxnig sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like...

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Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance I mean where a person con...

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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing...

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Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad so tender yet so true.

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William Shenstone

Poet

Born: 1714-11-18

Died: 1763-02-11

William Shenstone (18 November 1714 – 11 February 1763) was an English poet, essayist and one of the earliest practitoners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.More