Quote by Horace Walpole
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw

Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – 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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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – Horace Walpole

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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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Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Usually the greatest boasters are the smallest workers. The deep rivers pay a larger tribute to the sea than shallow brooks, and yet empty themselves with less noise. – W. Secker

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A person who cant pay gets another person who cant pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It dont make either of them able to do a walking-match. – Charles Dickens

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A pig bought on credit is forever grunting. – Proverb

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