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Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
Horace Walpole
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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
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Politician
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London
England
Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
Horatio Walpole
4th Earl of Orford
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