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But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
In print by 1901 AD · modern
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- In print by 1901 AD · modern
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Quote388 · printed citation: BYRON: Don Juan, Canto i., St. 167.
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