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“I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.”
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given' their lives. But on what assurance did we know that these gifts ha...”
“Boys [should be] inured from childhood to trifling risks and slight dangers of every possible description, such as tumbling into ponds and off of trees, etc., in order to strengthen their nervous s...”
“I talk. Jim runs. I tilt stones, Jim grabs the cold junk under the stones and -lickety-split! I climb hills. Jim yells off church steeples. I got a bank account. Jims got the hair on his head, the ...”
“The echo of two boys playing in a pool testing each other to see who could hold their breath the longest. Whadda ya wanna do now? I know, we could wrestle like the Roman gladiators Okay What do we ...”
“How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?”
“The British boy suffers the greatest restraint during the period when the call of nature, the instincts of play and adventure, are most urgent. Naturally, he looks eagerly forward to the time of es...”
“We'd drifted too far to rely on the old boyhood telepathy anymore.”
“Look at what I wrote at the beginning of this memoir. Have I caught anything at all of the extraordinary night when Paul Dempster was born? I am pretty sure that my little sketch of Percy Boyd Stau...”
“Will the freshness, lightheartedness, the need for love, and strength of faith which you have in childhood ever return? What better time than when the two best virtues -- innocent joy and the bound...”
“I see, I see! From association Messala, in boyhood, was almost a Jew; had he remained here, he might have become a proselyte, so much do we all borrow from the influences that ripen our lives; but ...”
