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William Shenstone was an English poet, born on November 18, 1714, and died on February 11, 1763. His poetry is known for its fresh and natural style and its depiction of rural life.

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Famous William Shenstone Quotes

“What some people term Freedom is nothing else than a liberty of saying and doing disagreeable things. It is but carrying the notion a little higher, and it would require us to break and have a head broken reciprocally without offense.”

People Littles Term Freedom Liberty Break Broken Higher Notion Offense Disagreeable Saying And Doing

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.”

Ifs Men May Littles Happens Pieces Genius Abuse Wit Borders Remarkable Obliged

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

People Mean Littles Persons Ends Seems Honest Aim Affection Appearance Beloved Destructive Popularity Pernicious

Author:William Shenstone

“A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.”

May Littles Persons Enemy Rich Dresses Add Deference

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.”

People Littles Doe Has Beens Made Character Might Bears Birth Convinced Contrary Silly Tendencies Servant Servitude Place In Life

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.”

Littles Known Tree Fame Village Spires

Author:William Shenstone

“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.”

Littles Law Found Break Middle Creeps Texture Break Through

Author:William Shenstone

“It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.”

Littles Persons Happens Pleasure Money Infinite Strongest Contempt Appetite

Author:William Shenstone

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

Writing Littles Long House Rooms Sentences Composition

Book:The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...

Source: The Works in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: Most of which Were Never Before Printed ...