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Horace Walpole

"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that 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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"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."

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"The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon."

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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."

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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."

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"We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second."

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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."

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"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."

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"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

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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 move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

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