“He was an instance that a complete genius and a complete rogue can be formed before a man is of age.”

—  Thomas Chatterton

Horace Walpole, letter to William Mason dated July 24, 1778; published in Horace Walpole (ed. William Hadley) Selected Letters (London: Everyman's Library, 1963) p. 191.
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