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[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
Novelist
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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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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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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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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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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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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We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by false devotion never flammed, Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.
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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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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.
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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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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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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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