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Quote by Horace Walpole
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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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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