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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
Novelist
Politician
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London
England
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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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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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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If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
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An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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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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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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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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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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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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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 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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