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The minds of youth are perpetually led to the history of Greece and Rime or to Great Britain Boys are constantly repeating the declamations of Demosthenes and Cicero, or debates upon some political question in the British Parliament.

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Noah Webster
Age: 84 †
Born: 1758
Born: October 16
Died: 1843
Died: May 28
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