Today, 10 quotes from Horace Walpole, born on this date in 1717.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
Who has begun has half done. Have the courage to be wise. Begin!
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
Exercise is the worst thing in the world and as bad an invention as gunpowder.
History is a romance that is believed; romance, a history that is not believed.
We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.
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