A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure,… — Horace Walpole Brilliant Copy Share Image
Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to… — Horace Walpole Chance Copy Share Image
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a… — Horace Walpole Genius Copy Share Image
We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by… — Horace Walpole Devotion Copy Share Image
The best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
[King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he… — Horace Walpole King Copy Share Image
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humour was provided to console him… — Horace Walpole Humor Copy Share Image
Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age… — Horace Walpole Age Copy Share Image
Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of… — Horace Walpole Bible Copy Share Image
I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women… — Horace Walpole Absurd Copy Share Image
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