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Horace Walpole Quotes

«The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.»
Author: Horace Walpole | Keywords: comedies, comedy, tragedy
«Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: Life | Keywords: comedy
«To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it,»
«The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: Interest | Keywords: profoundly
«I do not dislike the French from the vulgar antipathy between neighboring nations, but for their insolent and unfounded air of superiority»
«History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: History
«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.»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: Men | Keywords: to a great extent
«Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads»
Author: Horace Walpole | About: Mystery, Wisdom | Keywords: blockheads
«Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?»
«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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