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[The] taste [of the French] is too timid to be true taste--or is but half taste.

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Horace Walpole
Age: 79 †
Born: 1717
Born: September 24
Died: 1797
Died: March 2
Autobiographer
Novelist
Politician
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London
England
Sir Horace Walpole
Horatio Walpole
1st Baron Walpole
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Earl of Orford
Onuphrio Muralto
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4th Earl of Orford
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