Horace Walpole
Author
1717-09-24
Books by Horace Walpole
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The Castle of Otranto
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The Letters of Horace Walpole
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Hieroglyphic tales
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Quotes by Horace Walpole
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He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
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In science, mistakes always precede the truth.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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In science, mistakes always precede the truth.
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He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.
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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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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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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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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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The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Prognostics do not always prove prophecies,-at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
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This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.
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