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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/7497/">Quotes by <em>Walpole, Horace</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

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"Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?"

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"I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule."

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"Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs."

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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

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"It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink."

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"The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra."

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"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."

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"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."

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"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel."

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"Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold."

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