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I have sometimes thought that a squire and a vestry were a king and republic in miniature. The vestry is as tyrannic, in its way, as the squire in hi… - Achille Vicart
" "I have sometimes thought that a squire and a vestry were a king and republic in miniature. The vestry is as tyrannic, in its way, as the squire in his. Any power necessarily leads to abuses of that power. It is difficult to stop any impetus of nature.
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About Achille Vicart
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), more commonly known as Horace Walpole, was a British politician and writer, noted for his collected letters and for having written the first Gothic horror novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764).
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Horace Walpole
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Sir Horace Walpole
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Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole
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Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford
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Onuphrio Muralto
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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford
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Horatio Walpole
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