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I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.

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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
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It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.
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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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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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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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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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[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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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very rarely, approve the first hints of anger.
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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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