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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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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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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. – 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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I respect newspapers, but the reality is that magazine photojournalism is finished. They want illustrations, Photoshopped pictures of movie stars. – Mary Ellen Mark

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Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. – Eldridge Cleaver

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I believe that, like most writers, my personality comes through in the fiction. So in that respect my writing cant be like any other authors really. – Paul Kane

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You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isnt a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and were third. – K. Eric Drexler

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I have also just finished three weeks on a soap opera in England. The soap opera is a rather famous one called Crossroads. It was first on television 25 years ago, and it has recently been brought back. I play the part of a businessman called David Wheeler. – Jeremy Bulloch

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