Quote by Horace Walpole
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be wit

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – Horace Walpole

Other quotes by Horace Walpole

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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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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The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial. – Alban Goodier

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It is people who make me seasick—not the sea. But I am afraid that science has yet to find a solution for this ailment. – Albert Einstein, 1930

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. – Maya Angelou, PBS, 1988 March 28th

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[M]an is a machine made expressly for sorrow; he has only five senses with which to receive pleasure, and suffering comes to him through the whole surface of his body…. The man who does not suffer is an ill-made machine, an imperfect creature… – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. – Dwight D Eisenhower

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