All Horace Walpole Quotes
I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
Horace Walpole
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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.
Horace Walpole
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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
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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.
Horace Walpole
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Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.
Horace Walpole
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
Horace Walpole
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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.
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