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

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. – Henry David Thoreau

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. – Groucho Marx

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