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All I can hope is to clear the worst part of the way; for, in undertaking to retrieve an estate, the beginning is certainly the most difficult of the work—it is fathoming a chaos.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace