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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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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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London
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.
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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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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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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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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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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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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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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark to another, of physical pain to a third, of public ridicule to a fourth, of poverty to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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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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