Horace Walpole: Doing

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“Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.”

Horace Walpole

Letter to Thomas Walpole (19 February 1785)

“To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.”

Horace Walpole

Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27 May 1776)

“It was easier to conquer it [the East] than to know what to do with it.”

Horace Walpole

Letter to Sir Horace Mann (27 March 1772)

“… It always amazes me, when I reflect on the women, who are the first to propagate scandal of one another. If they would but agree not to censure what they all agree to do, there would be no more loss of characters among them than amongst men. A woman cannot have an affair, but instantly all her sex travel about to publish it and leave her off: now, if a man cheats another of his estate at play, forges a will, or marries his ward to his own son, nobody thinks of leaving him off for such trifles!”

Horace Walpole

Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 25 Sept. 1742 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t5p84vt55;view=1up;seq=362, pp. 202–203, The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. P. Cunningham, vol. 1

“My councils do not need a Friar’s intervention,” said Manfred; “and of all men living is that hoary traitor the only one whom you delight to confer with?”

Horace Walpole book The Castle of Otranto

Section 4
The Castle of Otranto (1764)