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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Onuphrio Muralto
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4th Earl of Orford
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I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
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René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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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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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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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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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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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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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 charming to totter into vogue.
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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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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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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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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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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
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