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“The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.”

William Shenstone · Patriotism

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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.

Loneliness

William Shenstone

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Fear

William Shenstone

Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

Hope

William Shenstone

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

Knowledge