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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
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Politician
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London
England
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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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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The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
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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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I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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It is charming to totter into vogue.
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Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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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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Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow To Be old friends?
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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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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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