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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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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Age
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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 do not believe in revealed religion — I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another. – Lord Byron, 1778-1824, letter to Rev. Francis Hodgson, 1811

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

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

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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

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