Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

Horace Walpole
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Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

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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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In all science, error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last.

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.

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By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

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This world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

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The world is a comedy to those who think a tragedy to those who feel.

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