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Quote by Horace Walpole
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profound

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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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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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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