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Horace Walpole
1717 - 1797 *
English author, famous for his letters and Gothic romance
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The balance of power. -- Speech, 1741.
Flowery oratory he despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price." -- Coxe: Memoirs of Walpole. Vol. iv. p. 369.
Anything but history, for history must be false. -- Walpoliana. No. 141.
The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours. -- NOTESFOLLOW
Note 1."All men have their price" is commonly ascribed to Walpole. -- Note 2.Hazlitt, in his “Wit and Humour,” says, “This is Walpole's phrase.”
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.—Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld: Maxim 298.Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater, -- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1742.
The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel. -- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1770.
A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not misbecome a monarch. -- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774.
The whole [Scotch] nation hitherto has been void of wit and humour, and even incapable of relishing it. -- Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1778.
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