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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.
William Shenstone
Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.
William Shenstone.
Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor.William Shenstone.
A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.William Shenstone.
A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.William Shenstone.
The worst inconvenience of a small fortune is that it will not admit of inadvertency.William Shenstone.
True honour is to honesty what the Court of Chancery is to common law.William Shenstone.
Jealousy is the apprehension of superiority.William Shenstone.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.William Shenstone.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.William Shenstone.
They [liars] begin with making falsehood appear like truth, and end with making truth appear like falsehood.William Shenstone.
I fancy the proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.William Shenstone.
Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.William Shenstone.
A reserved man is in continual conflict with the social part of his nature, and even grudges himself the laugh into which he is sometimes betrayed.William Shenstone.
