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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

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – 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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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 would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. – Martin Esslin

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Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. – Bill Fitch

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