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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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isnt. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. – 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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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit. – Author Unknown

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There are some mortals who are never happy save when they have some hurt feelings to enjoy. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

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The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. – Ernest Hemingway

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There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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