The world is a tradgedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. – Horace Walpole
Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole
The world is a tradgedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. – Horace Walpole
Letters to absence can a voice impart,
And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. – Horace Walpole
Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school. – Horace Walpole
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
If other Germans drink beer, German students swill it. If one is unable to toss off his fifteen glasses in an hour, it is regarded by his fellows as a sign of puerility only less strong than that he has the scar of no duel on his cheek. – Arthur Handly Marks, “Berlin: Its Bayonets and Its Beer” (Berlin, 1887 June 14th