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Horace Walpole

"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."

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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."

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"Creatures, I give you yourselves," said the strong, happy voice of Aslan. "I give to you forever this land of Narnia. I give you the woods, the fruits, the rivers. I give you the stars and I give you myself. The Dumb Beasts whom I have not chosen are yours also. Treat them gently and cherish them but do not go back to their ways lest you cease to be Talking Beasts. For out of them you were taken and into them you can return. Do not so."

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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."

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"If men could fit water into their pockets, the ocean would be empty."

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"Flowers are the beautiful hairs of the Mother Spring! Don't pluck them!"

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"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die."

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"Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness. Expose your face to the aerial floods that sweep the heavens, 'inhale great draughts of space,' wonder, wonder at the wind's unwearied activity. Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling waters. How can the world be shriveled when this most profound, emotional sense, touch, is faithful to its service? I am sure that if a fairy bade me choose between the sense of sight and that of touch, I would not part with the warm, endearing contact of human hands."

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"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."

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"Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me."

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"Water is life sustenance."

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"No departure from the truth of nature shall be discovered by the closest scrutiny."

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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think."
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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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"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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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."
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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."
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"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
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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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"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
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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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"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."
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