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

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    “Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

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

    “Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “The conviction that the best way to prepare children for a harsh, rapidly changing world is to introduce formal instruction at an early age is wrong. There is simply no evidence to support it, and considerable evidence against it. Starting children early academically has not worked in the past and is not working now.”
    —David Elkind (20th century)

    “In time your relatives will come to accept the idea that a career is as important to you as your family. Of course, in time the polar ice cap will melt.”
    —Barbara Dale (b. 1940)