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| Besides, there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink. | Booth Tarkington | Penrod |  |
| He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her--especially if that is what she desires. | Booth Tarkington | Penrod | |
| 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. | Booth Tarkington | Penrod | |
| Thirteen is embarrassed by the beginnings of a new colthood; the child becomes a youth. But twelve is the very top of boyhood. | Booth Tarkington | Penrod | |
| One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act. | Booth Tarkington | Penrod | |
