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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
Horace Walpole
Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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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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Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
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[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
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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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Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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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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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
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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 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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The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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