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

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  Beautiful, Art, Way

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• I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook, For 'tis sentiment does it, says I.

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  Rap, Axes, Doe

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• The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it.

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  Scotch, Void, Humour

  Horace Walpole (1866). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford”, p.67

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• Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

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  Fashion, Law, Devotee

  Horace Walpole (1861). “The letters of Horace Walpole: earl of Orford”, p.383

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• My aversion to them...springs from the perniciousness of that sect to society-I hate Papists, as a man, not as a Protestant. If Papists were only enemies to the religion of other men, I should overlook their errors. As they are foes to liberty, I cannot forgive them.

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  Spring, Hate, Men

  "Memoirs from the Declaration of the War with Spain". Book by Horace Walpole, 1746.

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• A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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  Suffering, Tragedy, Delay

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.4955, Delphi Classics

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• That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

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  Religion, Genius, Lines

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• [King René of Anjou (1409-80)] would not listen to the news of his son having lost the Kingdom of Naples, because he would not bedisturbed when painting a picture of a partridge.

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  Kings, Son, News

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• We must cultivate our garden.
  Furia to God one day in seven allots;
  The other six to scandal she devotes.
  Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
  Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.

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  Responsibility, Garden, Optimism

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• The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.

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  Alarms, India, Crowns

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• Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys,
  There is but one a bad one;
  The tenth is he, the parson's fee,
  And indeed he is a sad one.
  No love of fame, no sense of shame,
  And a bad heart, let me tell ye:
  Without, all brass; within, all ass,
  And the puppy's name is Felly.

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  Father, Heart, Boys

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• [French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.

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  Offending, Ambitious, Delicacy

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• Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!

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  Ignorance, Discovery, Ideas

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