Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use. - William Shenstone

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There seem to be two ways of generating interest from the reader: withholding information or by telling the reader on the first page exactly what's going to happen.

William Shenstone

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

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When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

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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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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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