Horace Walpole Quote

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept.


The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford (ed. 1857)


I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus...

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus...

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus...

I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel – a solution of why Democritus...