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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 1279
AUTHOR: Benjamin Disraeli (1804–81)
QUOTATION: Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
ATTRIBUTION: BENJAMIN DISRAELI, The Young Duke, chapter 6, p. 19 (1859). First published in 1831.
SUBJECTS: Oratory