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

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    “When Lady Mary Tufton married Dr. Duncan, an elderly physician, Mr. George Selwyn said, “How often will she say with Macbeth ‘Wake, Duncan, with thy knocking—would thou couldst!’””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “They who feel cannot keep their minds in the equilibrium of a pair of scales: fear and hope have no equiponderant weights.”
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