Famous quotes containing the words horace walpole, walpole, early and/or life:
“Dear Brand: You love laughing; there is a king dead; can you help coming to town?”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste—or is but half taste.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children’s adaptive capacity.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)