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"Love is a pleasing, but a various clime!"
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William ShenstoneSome men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whe — William Shenstone
"Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice: whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born."
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William Shenstone
William Shenstone
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William Shenstone was an English poet and one of the earliest practitioners of landscape gardening through the development of his estate, The Leasowes.
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