I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
Horace Walpole
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More quotes by Horace Walpole
- Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
- I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.
- Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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