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Quote by Horace Walpole
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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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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – 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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Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. – Bill Fitch

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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – Jean Rostand

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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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