Vulgar words in Pushing to the Front (Page 1)
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The world has been very kind to many who were once known as dunces or blockheads, after they have become very successful; but it was very cross to them while they were struggling through discouragement and misinterpretation.
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Give every boy and girl a fair chance and reasonable encouragement, and do not condemn them because of even a large degree of downright stupidity; for many so-called good-for-nothing boys, blockheads, numskulls, dullards, or dunces, were only boys out of their places, round boys forced into square holes.
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Sir Walter Scott was called a blockhead by his teacher.
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Young Linnaeus was called by his teachers almost a blockhead.
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The first time was when I undertook to lick a owdashus cuss who cut a hole in my tent and krawld threw.
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"Tut, you blockhead," replied the other, "gibbets are the making of us; for, if there were no gibbets, every one would be a highwayman."
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We see men worth millions of dollars filled with terror; trembling lest investigations may uncover things which will damn them in the public estimation!
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How easy it is for a parent or teacher to ruin a child's constructive ability, to change a naturally, positive creative mind to a negative, non-producing one, by chilling the child's enthusiasm, by projecting into his plastic mind the idea that he is stupid, dull, lazy, a "blockhead" and good-for-nothing; that he will never amount to anything; that it is foolish for him to try to be much, because he has not the ability or physical stamina to enable him to accomplish what many others do.