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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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London
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Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.
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[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.
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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.
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We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by false devotion never flammed, Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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