By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole
By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole
The world is a tradgedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. – Horace Walpole
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Virginibus Puerisque II,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881