“I may be a real bad boy, but baby, I'm a real good man.”
Tim McGraw (1967) American country singer
Real Good Man
Song lyrics, Tim McGraw and the Dancehall Doctors (2002)
“I HAVE no patience with the hypothesis occasionally expressed, and often implied, especially in tales written to teach children to be good, that babies are born pretty much alike, and that the sole agencies in creating differences between boy and boy, and man and man, are steady application and moral effort. It is in the most unqualified manner that I object to pretensions of natural equality. The experiences of the nursery, the school, the University, and of professional careers, are a chain of proofs to the contrary.”
Hereditary Genius (1869; 2005), p. 56
Hereditary Genius (1869)
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Context: I want to speak to you first of all as regards your duties as boys; and in the next place as regards your duties as men; and the two things hang together. The same qualities that make a decent boy make a decent man. They have different manifestations, but fundamentally they are the same. If a boy has not got pluck and honesty and common-sense he is a pretty poor creature; and he is a worse creature if he is a man and lacks any one of those three traits.
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Though he be born in chains.”
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