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It is charming to totter into vogue.

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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
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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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 prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.
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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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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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I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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Let the French but have England, and they won't want to conquer it.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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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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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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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
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My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.
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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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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.
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Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
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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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