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The very power of [textbook writers] depends on the fact that they are dealing with a boy: a boy who thinks he is ‘doing’ his ‘English prep’ and has no notion that ethics, theology, and politics are all at stake. It is not a theory they put into his mind, but an assumption, which ten years hence, its origin forgotten and its presence unconscious, will condition him to take one side in a controversy which he has never recognized as a controversy at all. C. S. Lewis
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Oh, Lor!' said the boy, sitting down on the grassy bank at the edge of the shrubbery and very quickly getting up again because the grass was soaking wet. His name was unfortunately Eustace Scrubb but he wasn't a bad sort.
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We have nine children now half boys and half girls. Mark Twain
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We have never won the national title. There will be some good teams there and it will be hard. The boys had a couple of days off after the Auckland final but are now back into training. Mark Jackson
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We want our students to be A students and we know they can do it. There are special items for B students such as bracelets and things for boys like fire trucks and chess sets. Gloria Smith
boys play roles
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women, Aaron Sorkin
boys enough bigs
I'm a big boy. I've been through enough that I understand how things are. Alan Trammell
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A boy has a natural genius for combining business with pleasure. Charles Dudley Warner
boys practice world
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one
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Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day. Kara Swisher
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The people who died here were victims of one of the cruelest visitations of evil this nation has ever seen, ... But we offer them today not pity but honor, for as much as any soldier who ever fought in any war, they paid the price for our freedom. Al Gore
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We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
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Whether or not the law is passed, no one should be subjected to cruel or unusual punishment while in custody of the United States government,
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Men's most superficial feelings lead them to prefer cruel laws. Nevertheless, when they are subjected to them themselves, it is in each man's interest that they be moderate, because the fear of being injured is greater than the desire to injure. Cesare Beccaria
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Lost Souls ... a dark, violent mystery spiked with some cruel humor and plenty of social criticism. Michael Collins
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She was a sweet woman who was handed an extremely cruel fate. Paula Zahn
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It has always seemed a cruel joke to me that the very word 'stutter' is difficult for many stutterers to pronounce. It is onomatopoeic, an imitation of the halting, repetitive sound made by people with this speech dysfunction. Kate Forsyth
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An horrid stillness first invades the ear, / And in that stillness we the tempest fear. John Dryden
wicked
It would not be wicked to love me." "It would to obey you. Charlotte Bronte
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood, would be swept away from the earth by the deluge of its own iniquity. Charles Caleb Colton
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Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly. Jane Austen
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Somebody with Debbie Reynolds' features doesn't get cast as the Wicked Witch. Alan Rickman
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Judas Iscariot was not a greatly wicked person, just a common money-lover, and like most money-lovers, he did not understand Christ. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many. Edmund Burke
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I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. Antisthenes
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It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to being with. Daniel Handler
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The wicked flee when none pursueth. Charles Portis