Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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horace walpoles miscellany 1786 1795 ed by quotes
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A man of sense, though born without wit, often lives to have wit. His memory treasures up ideas and reflections; he compares them
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Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that
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Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never im
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René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] opened
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When Shakespeare copied chroniclers verbatim, it was because he knew they were good enough for his audiences. In a more polished a
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