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1. "There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." ~ Horace Walpole
2. "In science, mistakes always precede the truth." ~ Horace Walpole
3. "He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul." ~ Horace Walpole
4. "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." ~ Horace Walpole
5. "By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense." ~ Horace Walpole
6. "Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony." ~ Horace Walpole
7. "We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second." ~ Horace Walpole
8. "Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent." ~ Horace Walpole
9. "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
10. "I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due." ~ Horace Walpole
11. "I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing." ~ Horace Walpole
12. "How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians." ~ Horace Walpole
13. "The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon." ~ Horace Walpole
14. "The wisest prophets make sure of the event first." ~ Horace Walpole
15. "It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink." ~ Horace Walpole
16. "Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs." ~ Horace Walpole
17. "Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice." ~ Horace Walpole
18. "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
19. "When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles." ~ Horace Walpole
20. "This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." ~ Horace Walpole
21. "Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth." ~ Horace Walpole
22. "The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." ~ Horace Walpole
23. "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
24. "I can forgive injuries, but never benefits." ~ Horace Walpole
25. "But alas! my Lord, what is blood! what is nobility! We are all reptiles, miserable, sinful creatures. It is piety alone that can distinguish us from the dust whence we sprung, and whither we must return." ~ Horace Walpole
26. "I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept." ~ Horace Walpole
27. "Life is a Comedy for those who Think... and a Tragedy for those who Feel." ~ Horace Walpole
28. "Foolish writers and readers are created for each other." ~ Horace Walpole
29. "The gentle maid, whose hapless tale,these melancholy pages speak;say, gracious lady, shall she failTo draw the tear a down from thy cheek?" ~ Horace Walpole
30. "It is natural for a translator to be prejudiced in favour of his adopted work. More impartial readers may not be so much struck with the beauties of this piece as I was. Yet I am not blind to my author's defects." ~ Horace Walpole
31. "Manfred, Prince of Otranto, had one son and one daughter: the latter, a most beautiful virgin, aged eighteen, was called Matilda. Conrad, the son, was three years younger, a homely youth, sickly, and of no promising disposition; yet he was the darling of his father, who never showed any symptoms of affection to Matilda. Manfred had contracted a marriage for his son with the Marquis of Vicenza's daughter, Isabella; and she had already been delivered by her guardians into the hands of Manfred, that he might celebrate the wedding as soon as Conrad's infirm state of health would permit." ~ Horace Walpole
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