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"Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater,"
Horace Walpole / Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1742.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1742.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel."
Horace Walpole / Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch."
Horace Walpole / Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it."
Horace Walpole / Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.
Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little."
Thomas B. Macaulay / On Horace Walpole. 1833.
On Horace Walpole. 1833.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain