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"What I can do for my country, I am willing to do."

"It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending."

"And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business."

"Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth."

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"I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy."

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