Quote by Horace Walpole
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself.

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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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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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. – Francis Bacon

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