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"All boys ought to be drownded at birth."
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Charles Harold St. John Hamilton was an English writer, specialising in writing long-running series of stories for weekly magazines about recurrent casts of characters, his most frequent and famous genre being boys' public school stories, though he also wrote in other genres. He used a variety of pen-names, generally using a different name for each set of characters he wrote about, the most famous
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"A somewhat short junior, with a broad, pleasant face and an enormous pair of spectacles"
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"I say you fellows, I expect to see fair play."
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"The chief thing was to select a name totally different from those under which he had hitherto written: so that when he used the name, he would feel like a different person, and in consequence write from a somewhat different angle. I have been told - by men who do not write - that this is all fanciful. This only means that they dont understand."
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"The business of a boys author is not to consider political issues, but to entertain the readers, make them as happy as possible."
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"If there is a Tchekov among my readers, I fervently hope that the effects of the Magnet wil be to turn him into a Bob Cherry."
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