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I ain’t going to kiss ye, poppet. Just keep still like a good little lad.
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Bey Deckard (Caged: Love and Treachery on the High Seas (Baal's Heart, #1))
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And what do they talk about beyond the barricade, my little lad?”
“Um…well, Justice an' Truth an' Freedom and stuff,” said Nobby.
“Aha. Rebel talk!” said Carcer, straightening up.
“Is it?” said the major.
“Take it from me, major,” said Carcer. “When you get a bunch of people using words like that, they're up to no good.
”
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Terry Pratchett
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Rain falling on water… Ah, yes…When he was a little lad he’d pretended that the raindrops splashing in the running gutters were soldiers. Millions of soldiers. And the bubbles that sometimes went floating by were men on horseback. Right now he couldn’t remember what the occasional dead dog had been. Some kind of siege weapon, possibly.
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Terry Pratchett (Jingo (Discworld, #21))
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Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, "I don't believe it, boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles." I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must. But mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it. Laurie
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women #1))
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In the possibility of a loyalty to the virtues which makes men manliest in good women's eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tenderhearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves and are not ashamed to own it.
”
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women, #1))
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18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you’ll never have reason to apply it to yourself.
Across the fields of yesterday,
He sometimes comes to me
A little lad just back from play—
The boy I used to be.
He looks at me so wistfully
When once he’s crept within;
It is as if he hoped to see
The man I might have been.
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James C. Dobson (Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future)
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As the years went on, two little lads of her own came to increase her happiness—Rob, named for Grandpa, and Teddy, a happy-go-lucky baby, who seemed to have inherited his papa’s sunshiny temper as well as his mother’s lively spirit.
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)
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Yes, Jo was a very happy woman there, in spite of hard work, much anxiety, and a perpetual racket. She enjoyed it heartily and found the applause of her boys more satisfying than any praise of the world, for now she told no stories except to her flock of enthusiastic believers and admirers. As the years went on, two little lads of her own came to increase her happiness—Rob, named for Grandpa, and Teddy, a happy-go-lucky baby, who seemed to have inherited his papa's sunshiny temper as well as his mother's lively spirit. How
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Illustrated))
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If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may- for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tender-hearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves, and are not ashamed to own it.
”
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women, #1))
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One morning I was reading the story of Jesus’ feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two fishes. “Let me have them,” said Jesus. He asked for all. He took them, said the blessing, and broke them before He gave them out. I remembered what a chapel speaker, Ruth Stull of Peru, had said: “If my life is broken when given to Jesus, it is because pieces will feed a multitude, while a loaf will satisfy only a little lad.
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Elisabeth Elliot (Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control)
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Very likely some Mrs. Grundy will observe, “I don’t believe it; boys will be boys, young men must sow their wild oats, and women must not expect miracles.” I dare say you don’t, Mrs. Grundy, but it’s true nevertheless. Women work a good many miracles, and I have a persuasion that they may perform even that of raising the standard of manhood by refusing to echo such sayings. Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must; but mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women’s eyes. If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may, for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tender-hearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves, and are not ashamed to own it.
”
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women, #1))
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Would you say that that man is at leisure who arranges with finical care his Corinthian bronzes, that the mania of a few makes costly, and spends the greater part of each day upon rusty bits of copper? Who sits in a public wrestling-place (for, to our shame I we labour with vices that are not even Roman) watching the wrangling of lads? Who sorts out the herds of his pack-mules into pairs of the same age and colour? Who feeds all the newest athletes? Tell me, would you say that those men are at leisure who pass many hours at the barber’s while they are being stripped of whatever grew out the night before? while a solemn debate is held over each separate hair? while either disarranged locks are restored to their place or thinning ones drawn from this side and that toward the forehead? How angry they get if the barber has been a bit too careless, just as if he were shearing a real man! How they flare up if any of their mane is lopped off, if any of it lies out of order, if it does not all fall into its proper ringlets! Who of these would not rather have the state disordered than his hair? Who is not more concerned to have his head trim rather than safe? Who would not rather be well barbered than upright? Would you say that these are at leisure who are occupied with the comb and the mirror? And what of those who are engaged in composing, hearing, and learning songs, while they twist the voice, whose best and simplest movement Nature designed to be straightforward, into the meanderings of some indolent tune, who are always snapping their fingers as they beat time to some song they have in their head, who are overheard humming a tune when they have been summoned to serious, often even melancholy, matters? These have not leisure, but idle occupation. And their banquets, Heaven knows! I cannot reckon among their unoccupied hours, since I see how anxiously they set out their silver plate, how diligently they tie up the tunics of their pretty slave-boys, how breathlessly they watch to see in what style the wild boar issues from the hands of the cook, with what speed at a given signal smooth-faced boys hurry to perform their duties, with what skill the birds are carved into portions all according to rule, how carefully unhappy little lads wipe up the spittle of drunkards. By such means they seek the reputation for elegance and good taste, and to such an extent do their evils follow them into all the privacies of life that they can neither eat nor drink without ostentation. And
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Seneca (On The Shortness of Life)
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And what do they talk about beyond the barricade, my little lad?’ ‘Um . . . well, Justice an’ Truth an’ Freedom and stuff,’ said Nobby. ‘Aha. Rebel talk!’ said Carcer, straightening up. ‘Is it?’ said the major. ‘Take it from me, major,’ said Carcer. ‘When you get a bunch of people using words like that, they’re up to no good.
”
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Terry Pratchett (Night Watch (Discworld, #29))
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Although you're a man now, you'll always be the same little lad in my eyes.
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Lauren Asher (The Fine Print (Dreamland Billionaires, #1))
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THE LYNCHING by Claude McKay His spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His Father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven. All night a bright and solitary star (Perchance the one that ever guided him, Yet gave him up at last to Fate’s wild whim) Hung pitifully o’er the swinging char. Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view The ghastly body swaying in the sun The women thronged to look, but never a one Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue; And little lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.
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Meg Langford (The Little Book of Lynching)
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I now take my little lad, who’s five. I’ve told him he can follow any religion he wants, be any person he wants, be whatever sexuality he wants, but there are two things he has to do: be nice to his mum and follow Sheffield Wednesday. Do those and you’re all right with me.
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Nige Tassell (The Hard Yards: Triumph, Despair and Championship Football)
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Baothan that was afterwards a saint of the Gael was of the kindred of Columcille, and it was Columcille sent him when he was a little lad to be taught by Saint Colman Ela.
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Lady Gregory (A Book of Saints and Wonders)
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Perhaps it is worth nothing at all. How can I tell?” he thought, with the heartsickness of a great timidity. Now that he had left it there, it seemed to him so hazardous, so vain, so foolish, to dream that he, a little lad with bare feet, who barely knew his letters, could do anything at which great painters, real artists, could ever deign to look. Yet he took heart as he went by the cathedral: the lordly form of Rubens seemed to rise from the fog and the darkness, and to loom in its magnificence before him, whilst the lips, with their kindly smile, seemed to him to murmur, “Nay, have courage! It was not by a weak heart and by faint fear that I wrote my name for all time upon Antwerp.
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Louise De La Ramee (Ouida). (Dog of Flanders and Other Stories ( Companion Library Edition))
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To engage in acts of play is to betray the being of persona trying to not be. The little lad like many of the other fellows asked of my demeanor and engagement boundaries. I replied with as much pretension and pride on the top of my head, “I have no use for such normative acts, nor does it fulfill the needless deeds of my callous virtues”. A dictation upon irony and ponder.
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Othello D. Gomes
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No Jews now,’ she chirruped, ‘to waylay poor little lads and hang them up in cellars. It was a good day for England when they were packed off.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner (The Corner That Held Them (New York Review Books Classics))
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Ballad of a Carpenter"
"Jesus was a working man
And a hero you will hear
Born in the town of Bethlehem
At the turning of the year
At the turning of the year
When Jesus was a little lad
Streets rang with his name
For he argued with the older men
And he put them all to shame
He put them all to shame
He became a wandering journeyman
And he traveled far and wide
And he noticed how wealth and poverty
Live always side by side
Live always side by side
So he said, "Come all you working men,
You farmers and weavers too
If you would only stand as one
This world belongs to you
This world belongs to you
When the rich men heard what the carpenter had done
To the Roman troops he ran
Saying put this rebel Jesus down
He's a menace to God and man
He's a menace to God and man
The commander of the occupying troops
He laughed and then he said
There's a cross to spare on Calvary's hill
By the weekend he'll be dead
By the weekend he'll be dead
Now Jesus walked among the poor
For the poor were his own kind
And they'd never let them get near enough
To take him from behind
To take him front behind
So they hired one of the traitors trade
And an informer was he
And he sold his brothers to the butcher's men
For a fistful of silver money
For a fistful of silver money
And Jesus sat in the prison cell
And they beat him and offered him bribes
To desert the cause of his fellow men
And work for the rich men's tribe
To work for the rich men's tribe
And the sweat stood out in Jesus' brow
And the blood was in his eye
When they nailed his body to the Roman cross
And they laughed as they watched him die
They laughed as they watched him die
2,000 years have passed and gone
And many a hero too,
But the dream of this poor carpenter
Remains in the hands of you
Remains in the hands of you
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Ewan McColl
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He was a chubby little lad with round red cheeks and a big smile. It was one time when Frank was running against Festus he got the idea. He put fat little Fahey in the collar and the black suit and sent him around ringing Protestant doorbells. He’d ask to see the lady of the house. He’d be let in half the time, and then he’d go into the speech. ‘Good morning, madam,’ he’d say. ‘I’m Father Francis Xavier Fahey, of the Jesuit Fathers, up on the hill. I’m calling on you in the interests of good government. The Jesuit Fathers are highly interested in the candidacy of Festus Garvey and we’re trying to drum up a little support for him.’ Then he’d give her a sneaky smile and a little wink.
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Edwin O'Connor (The Last Hurrah)
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If it is a feminine delusion, leave us to enjoy it while we may,—for without it half the beauty and the romance of life is lost, and sorrowful forebodings would embitter all our hopes of the brave, tender-hearted little lads, who still love their mothers better than themselves, and are not ashamed to own it.
”
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Louisa May Alcott (Little Women (Little Women, #1))