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Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn to pieces by his own pack.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.
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The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it.
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I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Without grace no book can live, and with it the poorest may have its life prolonged.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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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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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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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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[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery.
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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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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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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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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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