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

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About Horace Walpole

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian.

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We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

—Horace Walpole

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Foolish writers and readers are created for each other.

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

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Penetrate deeply into the secret existence of anyone about you, even of the man or woman whom you count happiest, and you will come upon things they spend all their efforts to hide. Fair as the exterior may be, if you go in, you will find bare places, heaps of rubbish that can never be taken away, cold hearths, desolate altars, and windows veiled with cobwebs.

—Myrtle Reed

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Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

—Lawrence Durrell

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And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept.

—Jean Cocteau

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In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.

—Peter Matthiessen

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It was the kind of kiss I could never tell my friends about out loud. It was the kind of kiss that made me know I was never so happy in my whole life.