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" He would be a very absurd legislator who should pretend to set bounds to his country's welfare, lest it should perish by knowing no bounds. "
Horace Walpole
Welfare
Country
Pretend
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" The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs. "
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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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" Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images. "
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" We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. "
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" This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. "
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Think
Feel
" The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. "
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Well
Life
" It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. "
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Than
Know
" 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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Her
She
Said
" By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. "
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Sense
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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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Rules
" Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. "
Horace Walpole
Want
People
Other
" When a Frenchman reads of the garden of Eden, I do not doubt but he concludes it was something approaching to that of Versailles, with clipped hedges, berceaus, and trellis work. "
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Something
Work
He
" How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. "
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Improve
Historians
" In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. "
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Science
Truth
Last
" 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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Humor
Imagination
Man
" The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. "
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Wisest
Event
Prophets
" Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. "
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Men
Bills
Credit
" 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. "
Horace Walpole
Dancing
Old
Age
" Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. "
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Way
Art
Beautiful
" 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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Own
School
Head
" I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. "
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Admire
Way
Politicians
" 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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High
Foot
Ambition
" I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. "
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Juvenile
Miles
Search
" The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. "
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Sinners
Your
Work