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About Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a British politician and writer, noted for his collected letters and for having written the first Gothic horror novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764).
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Additional quotes by Horace Walpole
Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.
The farther I travel, the less I wonder at anything: a few days reconcile one to a new spot, or an unseen custom; and men are so much the same everywhere, that one scare perceives a change in situation.
No, Isabella,” said the Princess, “I should not deserve this incomparable parent, if the inmost recesses of my soul harboured a thought without her permission — nay, I have offended her; I have suffered a passion to enter my heart without her avowal — but here I disclaim it; here I vow to heaven and her —