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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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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense. – Horace Walpole

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