1st Baron Walpole

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    Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
    Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778–1868)

    When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror cried, “Good God, my Lord, don’t talk of that!” “Nay,” said Sir Robert, “it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it—nor you neither.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)