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I know that I have had friends who would never have vexed or betrayed me, if they had walked on all fours.

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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
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London
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1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
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4th Earl of Orford
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