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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
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Politician
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London
England
Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
Horace Walpole
Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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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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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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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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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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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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Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!
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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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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
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Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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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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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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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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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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