Horace Walpole/later Parliamentary Career - 1754%e2%80%931768

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    “Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

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

    “Letters to absence can a voice impart,
    And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    “Work-family conflicts—the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child—would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)