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A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable
Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he read more
Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!"
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he read more
The boy who expects every morning to open into a new world finds that today is like yesterday, but he believes tomorrow will be different
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and read more
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life that he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, read more
Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.