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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Horace Walpole

Horace Walpole (1717–1797), British author. Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 45, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978).

Originally written in 1787.

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