"The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one."
-William Shenstone
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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.“
-William Shenstone
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"The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate."
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"A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood."
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"Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it."
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"The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical."
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"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
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