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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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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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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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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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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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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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A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections he compares themwith new occurrences, and strikes out new lights from the collision. The consequence is sometimes bons mots, and sometimes apothegms.
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The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.
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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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In science, mistakes always precede the truth
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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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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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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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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