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Horace Walpole on Intelligence

1717–1797 England

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He was an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age.

He was my counsel in affairs, was my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, and the genius that presided over poor Strawberry.

On the death of his friend John Chute (1776)

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