“Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.”
— Horace Walpole
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Category: poetry
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“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.”
— Horace Walpole
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Category: life
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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.”
— Horace Walpole
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Category: age
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“By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.”
— Horace Walpole
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“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
— Horace Walpole
Author: Horace Walpole
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“Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
— Horace Walpole
Author: Horace Walpole
Category: poetry
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“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.”
— Horace Walpole
Author: Horace Walpole
Category: truth
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