“I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.”
Source: Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
“They were a well-behaved group, too; getting in trouble often enough so there could be no doubt about their masculinity, but not enough so that the discipline officer would remember any of their names.”
Source: Tomorrow Knight (1976), Chapter 3 (p. 25)
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