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“Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”

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Horace Walpole was an English politician, writer, and critic, born on September 24, 1717, and died on March 2, 1797. He is best known for his contributions to literature and the arts, particularly for his role in the revival of Gothic novels. more

“In the drawing room [of the Queen's palace] hung a Venus and Cupid by Michaelangelo, in which, instead of a bit of drapery, the painter has placed Cupid's foot between Venus's thighs. Queen Caroline asked General Guise, an old connoisseur, if it was not a very fine piece? He replied "Madam, the painter was a fool, for he has placed the foot where the hand should be.”

Ifs Should Hands Bits Rooms Pieces Feet Fine Fool Drawing Painter Queens Hung Palaces Thighs Venus Guise Cupid Obscenity Connoisseur

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“We must cultivate our garden. Furia to God one day in seven allots; The other six to scandal she devotes. Satan, by false devotion never flammed, Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.”

Responsibility One Day Six Garden Optimism Seven Devotion Satan Scandal

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“It amazes me when I hear any person prefer blindness to deafness. Such a person must have a terrible dread of being alone. Blindness makes one totally dependent on others, and deprives us of every satisfaction that results from light.”

Persons Light Results Terrible Satisfaction Dependent Dread Blindness Deafness

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“When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora's box. "What! all!" said the Prince. "Yes, all." "No," said the Prince; "curiosity must have been without.”

Years Has Beens Said Kings Seven Curiosity Vices Boxes Mythology Seven Years Pandora Emmanuel Pandora's Box

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“Pedants make a great rout about criticism, as if it were a science of great depth, and required much pains and knowledge--criticism however is only the result of good sense, taste and judgment--three qualities that indeed seldom are found together, and extremely seldom in a pedant, which most critics are.”

Ifs Pain Together Three Found Results Quality Taste Judgment Criticism Critics Depth Good Sense Pedants Pedantry Taste And Judgment

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“The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Company in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.”

Should May Shows Lasts Company Effects India Secure Servant Diamond Crowns Alarms Retrospect Bribe Impunity Plunder Prosecution

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“Of Ickworth's boys, their father's joys, There is but one a bad one; The tenth is he, the parson's fee, And indeed he is a sad one. No love of fame, no sense of shame, And a bad heart, let me tell ye: Without, all brass; within, all ass, And the puppy's name is Felly.”

Heart Joy Father Names Boys Fame Let Me Shame Ass Puppy Fees No Love Brass Bad Heart

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“[Corneille] was inspired by Roman authors and Roman spirit, Racine with delicacy by the polished court of Louis XIV.”

Spirit Court Inspired Polished Delicacy

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“Art is the filigrain of a little mind, and is twisted and involved and curled, but would reach farther if laid out in a straight line.”

Ifs Mind Littles Art Lines Involved Art Is Twisted Straight Lines Little Minds

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“[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.”

Ambitious Delicacy Offending Sublimity

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