Horace Walpole (1717–1797) English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician
As quoted in The Christian Leader, Vol. 37, Issue 7 (17 February 1934)
“The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things well.”
Said at Keswick, as quoted in The Education Outlook (1926) Vol. 78
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