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  • Football, in itself, is a grand game fordeveloping a lad physicallyand also morally†but it is a viciousgame when it draws crowds of lads away from playing the game themselves to be merely onlookers at a few paid players.

    - Robert Stephenson Smyth, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
      Scouting for Boys.

  • You have to have something vicious in you to be a creative writer† God save me from being 'nice'.

    - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
      Book review, reprinted in Phoenix.

  • Seulement les sots sont punis, et non les vicieux. Only the foolish are punished, never the truly vicious.

    -Marguerite d'Angoule"  me
      Heptame  ron, pt.13.

  • But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first.You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

    -Saki pseudonym of  Hector Hugh Munro
      Reginald in Russia,'The Baker's Dozen'.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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