It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Horace Walpole
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
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.
I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs.
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.
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