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Life is a farce, and should not end with a mourning scene.
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
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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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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.
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How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.
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If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty.
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I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.
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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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It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.
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Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
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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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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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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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I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense--but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd--for sense cannot be counterfeited.
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Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.
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I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
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Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
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I can forgive injuries, but never benefits.
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History is a romance that is believed romance, a history that is not believed.
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