"I never found even in my juvenile hours……" — Horace Walpole
"I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing."
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55 Quotes by Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole has 55 quotes on this site.
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Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
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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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Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't…
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
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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,…
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I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to…
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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.
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The passions seldom give good advice but to the interested and mercenary. Resentment generally suggests bad measures. Second thoughts and…
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is…
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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…
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is…
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
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