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)

    “Nothing has shown more fully the prodigious ignorance of human ideas and their littleness, than the discovery of [Sir William] Herschell, that what used to be called the Milky Way is a portion of perhaps an infinite multitude of worlds!”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “O troubled forms, O early love unfortunate and hard,
    Time has estranged you into a jewel cold and pure;”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “I restore myself when I’m alone. A career is born in public—talent in privacy.”
    —Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962)