A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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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
A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo.
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My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.
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What leads to unhappiness, is making pleasure the chief aim.
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Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.
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Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.
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