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

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    “It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her i’s, to save ink.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “He had long before indulged most unfavourable sentiments of our fellow-subjects in America. For, as early as 1769,... he had said of them, “Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.””
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)