Horace Walpole Quotes

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• Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
• Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
• Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
• The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
• I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of…
• To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
• 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…
• I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a…
• Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
• The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and good nature will rarely, very…
• How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called…
• 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…
• Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.
• I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.
• Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories
• We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
• It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.
• History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
• 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…
• One's mind suffers only when one is young and while one is ignorant of the world. When one has lived for some time, one learns…

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