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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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens...

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens...

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female...

He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female...

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of...

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of...

But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare...

But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare...

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float.

And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year...

And on the third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year...

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.

Eat well, drink in moderation, and sleep sound, in these three good health abound.

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes...

Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes...

And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the...

And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the...

I drink to the confusion of our enemies.

I drink to the confusion of our enemies.

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and...

I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and...

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread...

Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread...

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name...

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name...

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went,...

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went,...