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It was easier to conquer it than to know what to do with it.

Horace Walpole

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Walpole, Horace. Letter to Horace Mann. 27 March 1772.

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Walpole, Horace. "Letter to Horace Mann." Horace Walpole's Correspondence, edited by W. S. Lewis, Warren Hunting Smith, and George Lam. Vol. 23, Yale University Press, 1967.

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At the stroke of the midnight hour, while the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Said just prior to the moment of India's independence from the British Empire.