Quote by Horace Walpole
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A

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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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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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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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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Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. – Sid Caesar

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Humor is laughing at what you havent got when you ought to have it. – Langston Hughes

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Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion. – Thomas Browne

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I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you cant read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesnt read that way. – Michael Buble

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