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Category: Horace Walpole

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one’s tongue don’t move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

Day, Youth, Tongue

In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

Truth, Better, First

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

Man, Imagination

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Nonsense, Sense, Than

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

writing-craft, writing-style

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

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

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

I am in a moment of pretty wellness.

medicine, sickness

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.

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.

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.