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“The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.”
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- Speech
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- 2026-07-04
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- 01d9f9b924e3b8c43207a83604efa70f1476238ad1e5be0e6548392fa8e5a783
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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