....he thinks about his boyhood, and he mourns his vanished youth - Now, who would live his life again, or face it? Tell the truth. I am mighty glad my boyhood and my youth are far away- I am in the straight for Fifty
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No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, should wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
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His English education at one of the great public schools had preserved his intellect perfectly and permanently at the stage of boyhood.
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The story of my boyhood and that of my brothers is important only because it could happen in any American family. It did, and will again.
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