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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
Novelist
Politician
Writer
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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I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
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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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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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The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
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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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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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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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