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• Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Might, Purity

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• The best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.

  Horace Walpole

  Coal, Fuel, Sun

  Horace Walpole, George Montagu (1837). “The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others].: 1760-1769”, p.407

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• When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV]at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship's crew, "now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.

  Horace Walpole

  Brother, Kings, Three

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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.

  Horace Walpole

  Alarms, India, Crowns

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• Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

  Horace Walpole

  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.

  Horace Walpole

  Spring, Hate, Men

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

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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.

  Horace Walpole

  Responsibility, Garden, Optimism

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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.

  Horace Walpole

  Suffering, Tragedy, Delay

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

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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.

  Horace Walpole

  Kings, Son, News

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• How much on outward show does all depend,
  If virtues from within no lustre lend!
  Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest
  Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

  Horace Walpole

  Doe, Majesty, Royalty

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• At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

  Horace Walpole

  Giving, Curiosity, Lasts

  Letter to Horace Mann, 24 Nov. 1774 See Macaulay 9

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

  Horace Walpole

  Ink, Dots, Misery

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1859). “The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford”, p.22

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• Two clergymen disputing whether ordination would be valid without the imposition of both hands, the more formal one said, "Do you think the Holy Dove could fly down with only one wing?

  Horace Walpole

  Thinking, Hands, Wings

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