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 best sun we have is made of Newcastle coal, and I am determined never to reckon upon any other.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “For Jeremy, direct, unmediated experience was always hard to take in, always more or less disquieting. Life became safe, things assumed meaning, only when they had been translated into words and confined between the covers of a book.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)