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-Goethe,JohannWolfgang von
   Attributed.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which [Walpole] 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 cease with their youth, and not of those who continue ignorant in spite of their age and experience.

-Pitt,William, 1st Earl of Chatham known as  the Elder
  Speech to the House of Commons, 6 Mar.