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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
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4th Earl of Orford
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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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The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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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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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
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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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He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
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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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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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I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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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.
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