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Horace Walpole

"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

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"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

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"I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream."

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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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"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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"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."
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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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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
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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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