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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.

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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
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London
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Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
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4th Earl of Orford
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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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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
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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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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.
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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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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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I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
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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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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
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Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
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Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, no sense of shame, And a bad heart, let me tell ye: Without, all brass within, all ass, And the puppy's name is Felly.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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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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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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