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

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    “The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
    —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)

    “I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    “A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.”
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)