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a schoolboy

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One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. Will McDonough

He was a powerless tool in the hands of Himmler, of whom he was afraid, and by whom he was treated poorly. Himmler insulted Pancke like a schoolboy. Pancke was about forty-eight to fifty years old, came from northern Germany. Günther Pancke

Yeah. I mean, it just seemed to me that it was - I felt so helpless to this business of not having any papers. That seems like a throwback to a schoolboy. James Stockdale

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox. Charles Baudelaire

At seventeen, I knew the end of a dream... I would never be a schoolboy again. King Hussein

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring. Geoffrey Fisher

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