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Famous William Shenstone Quotes
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.”
“Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.”
Source: Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Shenstone. With the Life of the Author and a Description of the Leasowes. [Edited by R. Dodsley.]
“Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.”
Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...