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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
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Politician
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London
England
Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
Horace Walpole
Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark to another, of physical pain to a third, of public ridicule to a fourth, of poverty to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.
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