Famous quotes containing the words game, boy and/or systems:
“I must save this government if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do; but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed.”
—Abraham Lincoln (18091865)
“I took a good deal o pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. Its the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“The only people who treasure systems are those whom the whole truth evades, who want to catch it by the tail. A system is just like truths tail, but the truth is like a lizard. It will leave the tail in your hand and escape; it knows that it will soon grow another tail.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)
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