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At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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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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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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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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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
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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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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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