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" 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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" 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. "

Horace Walpole

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Man

" It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink. "

" We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second. "

" In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last. "

" Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. "

" Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. "

" 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. "

" The wisest prophets make sure of the event first. "

" By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense. "

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

" How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. "

" The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs. "

" 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. "

" I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing. "

Horace Walpole

Juvenile

Miles

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

" It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it. "

" The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon. "

" 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. "

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

" This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel. "

" 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. "

" Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice. "

" I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due. "

" 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. "