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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

~William Shenstone

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A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

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

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

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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.

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Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

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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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The eye must be easy, before it can be pleased.

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A fool and his words are soon parted.

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What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: November 13th, 1714

Died: February 11th, 1763

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