Horace Walpole

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• This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.

  Letter to Lady Anne, Countess of Ossory, (15 August 1776)

• A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

  Letter 123 To Robert Jephson (13 July 1777)

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• Our supreme governors, the mob.

  Letter to Sir Horace Mann (7 September 1743)

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