Addresses Quote by William Shenstone

“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

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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…

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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…

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

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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

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Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

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A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

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Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of…

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Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

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

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

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Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.

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