• Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

  Booth Tarkington
  American novelist and dramatist 1869-1946
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. school-year
2. millennium
3. decades
4. through
5. waiting

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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium. by : Booth Tarkington

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