Horace Walpole/later Life - 1768%e2%80%931788

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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)

    “The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”
    —Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)