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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.

  Horace Walpole

  Rap, Axes, Doe

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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.

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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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• What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.

  Horace Walpole

  Believe, Men, Order

  Horace Walpole (1904). “The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford”

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Horace Walpole

  Father, Heart, Boys

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

  Horace Walpole

  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!

  Horace Walpole

  Ignorance, Discovery, Ideas

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