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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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Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
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4th Earl of Orford
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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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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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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.
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It is charming to totter into vogue.
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Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
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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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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 best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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