"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and a thousand other things as well."
— Hugh Walpole

January 1, 1970

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Reading : An Essay (1926); also quoted as a statement at Keswick, in The Education Outlook (1926) Vol. 78; this quote has often become misattributed to Horace Walpole, and misquoted as "...a thousand other things well".