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One Quotes by William Shenstone
- The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
- 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…
- 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,…
- My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
- The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.
- A statue in a garden is to be considered as one part of a scene or landscape.
- To one who said, "I do not believe that there is an honest man in the world," another replied, "It is impossible that any one…
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