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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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Horatio Walpole
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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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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted.
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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Perhaps those, who, trembling most, maintain a dignity in their fate, are the bravest: resolution on reflection is real courage.
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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark to another, of physical pain to a third, of public ridicule to a fourth, of poverty to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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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 whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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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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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
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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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An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!
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