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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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I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
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It is charming to totter into vogue.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.
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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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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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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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I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
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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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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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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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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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