HWHorace Walpole

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Horace Walpole

Life dates: 1717 AD — 1797 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1757 AD

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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02c. 1757 AD

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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03c. 1757 AD

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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04c. 1757 AD

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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05c. 1757 AD

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

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06c. 1757 AD

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

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