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PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS



I will tell you a reflection I made in 1766: that it is vexatious even to govern fools: and as vexatious not to have fools enough to govern.


The Eighteenth Century.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford.
Volume 13. To the Rev. William Mason. Letter 2449.

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