“A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.”
Source: Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to Sir Horace Mann, British Envoy at the Court of Tuscany
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“The curse of modern times is, that almost everything does create controversy.”
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: including numerous letters now first published from the original manuscripts
Source: The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford