Horace Walpole/early Parliamentary Career - 1741%e2%80%931754

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    “[French] authors are more afraid of offending delicacy and rules, than ambitious of sublimity.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “We must cultivate our garden.
    Furia to God one day in seven allots;
    The other six to scandal she devotes.
    Satan, by false devotion never flammed,
    Bets six to one, that Furia will be damned.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 14:25.

    “The problem, thus, is not whether or not women are to combine marriage and motherhood with work or career but how they are to do so—concomitantly in a two-role continuous pattern or sequentially in a pattern involving job or career discontinuities.”
    —Jessie Bernard (20th century)