#at

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#artist #being #dream #her #illustrator

I am now the target of the most powerful man in this country, with an army of aides whose major responsibility today seems to be to attack me and get rid of me. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

#am #army #attack #country #get

I would never say President Obama doesn't have the capacity to continue to serve because of his statement that there are 56 states. ↗

— Gerald Walpin

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The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms! ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #idea #like #lost #mushrooms

Oh that I were seated as high as my ambition, I'd place my naked foot on the necks of monarchs. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#foot #high #i #monarchs #naked

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations. ↗

— Horace Walpole

#character #comedy #diversified #even #great

I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#carrying #deny #departed #i #justice

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #burdened #charge #debts #discharge

But I must think that an address to his majesty to remove one of his servants, without so much as alleging any particular crime against him, is one of the greatest encroachments that was ever made upon the prerogatives of the crown. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#against #alleging #any #crime #crown

Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed at the head of the treasury? Has my conduct been different from that which others in the same station would have followed? ↗

— Robert Walpole

#been #conduct #crown #different #disposition