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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
Horace Walpole
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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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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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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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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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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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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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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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How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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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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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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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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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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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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