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Premierminister, Schriftsteller (England, 1717 - 1797).

Horace Walpole · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Horace Walpole wäre heute 306 Jahre, 7 Monate, 5 Tage oder 111.982 Tage alt.

Geboren am 24.09.1717 in London
Gestorben am 02.03.1797 in London
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• Da ich alt sein und die Gicht haben muß, nutze ich diese Nachteile seit langem gut aus und schiebe sie bei jeder Gelegenheit vor, wenn sie mich davor bewahren können, etwas zu tun, was ich nicht mag.

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• Dankbarkeit ist ein wacher Sinn für künftige Gunstbezeugungen.
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• Das Leben ist für Denkende eine Komödie und für Fühlende eine Tragödie.
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• Erfahrene Propheten warten die Ereignisse ab.

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• Langeweile ist das Unglück der Glücklichen.
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• Nicht auf das Leben kommt es an, sondern auf den Schwung, mit dem wir es anpacken.
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• Was bedeutet Ruhm für die Menschen, verglichen mit ihrem Glück?
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• [Lovat] was beheaded yesterday, and died extremely well, without passion, affectation, buffoonery or timidity: his behaviour was natural and intrepid.

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• [Strawberry Hill] is a little plaything-house that I got out of Mrs Chenevix's shop, and is the prettiest bauble you ever saw. It is set in enamelled meadows, with filigree hedges.

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• All his own geese are swans, as the swans of others are geese.

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• All his passions were expressed by one livid smile.

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• At Madame du Deffand's, an old blind débauchée of wit [Charles-Jean-François Hénault].

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• At present, nothing is talked of, nothing admired, but what I cannot help calling a very insipid and tedious performance: it is a kind of novel, called The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy; the great humour of which consists in the whole narration always going backwards.

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• But, thank God! the Thames is between me and the Duchess of Queensberry.

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• By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep, when we think of thee, O America!

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• Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

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• Everybody talks of the constitution, but all sides forget that the constitution is extremely well, and would do very well, if they would but let it alone.

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• He lost his dominions in America, his authority over Ireland, and all influence in Europe, by aiming at despotism inEngland; and exposed himself to more mortifications and humiliations than can happen to a quiet Doge of Venice.

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• His courage and his tenderness were never disunited. He was dauntless on every occasion, but when it was necessary to surmount his bashfulness.

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• His speeches were fine, but as much laboured as his extempore sayings.

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