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Quote by Horace Walpole
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misse

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

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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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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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