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Famous Horace Walpole Quotes
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts
“To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.”
Source: The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
“Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford
Source: The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford
Source: The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
“Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts
“Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts
“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.”
“It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.”
“History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.”
Source: The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford
“Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.”