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Horace Walpole Quotes


An English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), was an English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and politician. He is now largely remembered for Strawberry Hill, the home he built in Twickenham, south-west London where he revived the Gothic style some decades before his Victorian successors, and for his Gothic novel, The Castle of Otranto. Along with the book, his literary reputation rests on his Letters, which are of significant social and political interest. He was the son of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of the 1st Viscount Nelson.

Here are some famous quotes by Horace Walpole. 

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

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Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

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The world is a comedy to those who think; a tragedy to those who feel.

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This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

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

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Old friends are the great blessing of one's later years. ... They have a memory of the same events and have the same mode of thinking.

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The best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.

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We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark; to another of physical pain; to a third of public ridicule; to a fourth of poverty; to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.

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To act with common sense according to the moment is the best wisdom; and the best philosophy is to do one's duties to take the world as it comes submit respectfully to one's lot and bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is.