The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman Walpole has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall attempt neither to palliate nor deny but content myself with wishing that I be one of those whose follies shall cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
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