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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
Novelist
Politician
Writer
London
England
Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
Horace Walpole
Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
Horatio Walpole
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If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
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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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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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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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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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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
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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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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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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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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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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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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished age he who could so move our passions, could surely have performed the easier task of satisfying our taste.
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