Famous quotes containing the words century and/or boy:
“And haughtier-headed Burke that proved the State a tree,
That this unconquerable labyrinth of the birds, century after century,
Cast but dead leaves to mathematical equality....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“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)
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