“There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.”

—  Frank McCourt, book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

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