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    ““Heaven nor hell shall impede my designs,” said Manfred, advancing again to seize the princess. At that instant the portrait of his grandfather ... uttered a deep sigh and heaved its breast. ... Manfred ... saw it quit its panel, and descend on the floor with a grave and melancholy air.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “They who feel cannot keep their minds in the equilibrium of a pair of scales: fear and hope have no equiponderant weights.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    ““Seven years and six months!” Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. “An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you’d asked my advice, I’d have said ‘Leave off at seven’Mbut it’s too late now.””
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)