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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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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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Truth
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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

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Age
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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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I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the readers defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more. – William Collins

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I met Elton John at an Interview dinner, and we just sort of became friends. Hes got such a wicked sense of humor. – Moby

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A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor. – Maynard James Keenan

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Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber

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I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. – Henry Ward Beecher

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The nice thing about doing a crossword puzzle is, you know there is a solution. – Stephen Sondheim

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. – Shmuel Y. Agnon

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We all know how the size of sums of money appears to vary in a remarkable way according as they are being paid in or paid out. – Julian Huxley, Essays of a Biologist, 1923

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