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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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London
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Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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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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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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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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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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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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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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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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At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.
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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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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 easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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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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