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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. – 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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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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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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Ever get the feeling that sometime early in your life there must have been a briefing that you missed? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway (Thanks, Schanna)

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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. – David T. Wolf

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Sorrow hides behind all your pleasures; you are gluttonous rats which it attracts with a bit of savory bacon. – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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