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The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.

~Horace Walpole

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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

~Horace Walpole

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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.

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Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.

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The establishment of a society for the encouragement of arts will produce great benefits before they are perverted to mischiefs.

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Pictures may serve as helps to religion but are only an appendix to idolatry, for the people must be taught to believe in false gods and in the power of saints before they will learn to worship their images.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 24th, 1717

Died: March 2nd, 1797

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