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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – Horace Walpole

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – 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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