How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen brea…

Horace Walpole
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How posterity will laugh at us, one way or other! If half a dozen break their necks, and balloonism is exploded, we shall be called fools for having imagined it could be brought to use: if it should be turned to account, we shall be ridiculed for having doubted. ✨ Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1858). The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Oxford, p.562
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