How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstance…

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.
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The best philosophy is 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. ✨ Horace Walpole (1967). The Y … ▶
I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours. ✨ Horace Walpole, John Wright, George Agar-Ellis Dover (1st baron) (1840). The letters of Ho … ▶
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To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. ✨ Horace Walpole (1967). The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.

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