We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our particular creature waits in ambush.
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About Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole was a 18th-century English politician, writer, historian and antiquarian. Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, better known as Horace Walpole, was an English Whig politician, writer, historian and antiquarian. Read more on Wikipedia →
Themes
- Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back