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

January 1, 1970

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Horace Walpole, on Thomas Chatterton, in a letter to William Mason(24 July 1778); published in (ed. William Hadley) Horace Walpole: Selected Letters (1963) p. 191