“Visions, you know, have always been my pasture; and so far from growing old enough to quarrel with their emptiness, I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams. Old Castles, old pictures, old histories, and the babble of old people make one live back into centuries that cannot disappoint one. One holds fast and surely what is past. The dead have exhausted their power of deceiving—one can trust Catherine de Medicis now.”
-Horace Walpole to G. Montagu, 7 Jan. 1766.
Hunter, John. A treatise on the venereal disease. 2nd ed. (London : G. Nicol; and Mr. J. Johnson, 1788).
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