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

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    “Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Three early risings make an extra day.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “John Brown’s career for the last six weeks of his life was meteor-like, flashing through the darkness in which we live. I know of nothing so miraculous in our history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)