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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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The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
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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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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.
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It is charming to totter into vogue.
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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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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
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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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