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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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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. – 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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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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The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any. – Maurice Switzer

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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly! – Alexander Pope

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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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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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