Robert Walpole Quote

To Henry Fox, Lord Holland, when encountering him in the Library:

You can read. It is a great happiness. I totally neglected it while I was in business, which has been the whole of my life, and to such a degree that I cannot now read a page—a warning to all Ministers.


Life of Shelburne (1875) vol. 1, Edmund Fitzmaurice


You can read. It is a great happiness. I totally neglected it while I was in business, which has been the whole of my life, and to such a degree that ...

You can read. It is a great happiness. I totally neglected it while I was in business, which has been the whole of my life, and to such a degree that ...

You can read. It is a great happiness. I totally neglected it while I was in business, which has been the whole of my life, and to such a degree that ...

You can read. It is a great happiness. I totally neglected it while I was in business, which has been the whole of my life, and to such a degree that ...