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

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    “That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: “Reason, a thorn in Revelation’s side.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.”
    —James Thurber (1894–1961)

    “Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)