Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
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On Lord Clive (1840).Thomas Babington Macaulay
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A prison taint was on everything there. The imprisoned air, the imprisoned light, the imprisoned damps, the imprisoned men, were all deteriorated by confinement. As the captive men were faded and haggard, so the iron was rusty, the stone was slimy, the wood was rotten, the air was faint, the light was dim. Like a well, like a vault, like a tomb, the prison had no knowledge of the brightness outside; and would have kept its polluted atmosphere intact, in one of the spice islands of the Indian Ocean.
Charles Dickens
The Schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.Robert Blair
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan
Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' end.
Robert Burton
I went through a period of schoolboy atheism -- of the kind that comes with the discovery of rationality and goes with the realization of its limitations.
Shashi Tharoor
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