Horace Walpole/later Life - 1768%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD1788

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    Cunning is neither the consequence of sense, nor does it give sense. A proof that it is not sense, is that cunning people never imagine that others can see through them. It is the consequence of weakness.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
    Tony Benn (b. 1925)