By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole
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
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole