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Quote by Horace Walpole
I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing bef

I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones tongue dont move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. – Horace Walpole

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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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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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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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Every age has its own poetry in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. – Jean-Paul Sartre

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