“Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.”
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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