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

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“I cannot find in Chatterton's works any thing so extraordinary as the age at which they were written. They have a facility, vigour, and knowledge, which were prodigious in a boy of sixteen, but which would not have been so in a boy of twenty. He did not show extraordinary powers of genius, but extraordinary precocity. Nor do I believe he would have written better, had he lived. He knew this himself, or he would have lived. Great geniuses, like great kings, have too much to think of to kill themselves.”

“This is the most extraordinary young man that has encountered my knowledge. It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things.”

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