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My banks they are furnish’d with bees,
Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

— William Shenstone Works, Vol. I: Verse (1764)

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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.

Essays on Men and Manners (1764)

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are shewing you the grounds of it.

Essays on Men and Manners (1764)

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Essays on Men and Manners (1764)

Oft has good-nature been the fool's defence,
And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

Verses to a Lady (1736)

Love can be founded upon nature only; or the appearance of it.

Essays on Men and Manners (1764)

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