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"The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel– a solution of why Democritus laughed and Heraclitus wept."
Letter to Lady Anne (1776)
Horace Walpole was born #OTD in 1717. English writer, connoisseur, and collector known for his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), the first Gothic novel in the English language and one of the earliest literary horror stories. via @Britannica
Books by Horace Walpole at PG:
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