"Montesquiou's Espirit des loix; which I think the best book that was ever written—at least I never learned half as much from all I ever read. There is as much wit in it as there is practical knowledge."
— Montesquieu

January 1, 1970

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Horace Walpole to Sir Horace Mann (10 January 1750), quoted in Horace Walpole, The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, Volume 20: Horace Walpole's Correspondence with Sir Horace Mann. IV, eds. W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith and George L. Lam (1960), p. 107