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Quote by Horace Walpole
Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tr

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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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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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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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth. – Auguste Rodin

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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I love romantic comedies. Theyre for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. Theres nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. Thats not second nature to me, thank God. – Gabrielle Union

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Nature is commanded by obeying her. – Francis Bacon

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