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Famous quotes containing the words schoolboy, early and/or years:

    I see a schoolboy when I think of him,
    With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Probably more than youngsters at any age, early adolescents expect the adults they care about to demonstrate the virtues they want demonstrated. They also tend to expect adults they admire to be absolutely perfect. When adults disappoint them, they can be critical and intolerant.
    —The Lions Clubs International and the Quest Nation. The Surprising Years, I, ch.4 (1985)

    A few years later, I would have answered, “I never repeat anything.” That is the ritual phrase of society people, by which the gossip is reassured every time.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)