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

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Art
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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. – Horace Walpole

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Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. – Sitting Bull

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Life has no auto-settings. No batteries. You gots to wind it up! – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness. – Gilda Radner

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Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you dont do that by sitting around. – Katharine Hepburn

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All commands from your lips are sweet, I say, and now have you not said the sweetest of all? Marry you…! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries is not the goal but the exercise. – E. V. Cooke

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