When a boy's had a good mother he's got a good conscience, and when he's got a good conscience he don't need to have right and wrong labeled for him.
Now that your Ma's left and the apron strings are cut, you're naturally running up against a new sensation every minute, but if you'll simply use a little conscience as a tryer, and probe into a thing which looks sweet and sound on the skin,
to see if you can't fetch up a sour smell from around the bone, you'll be all right.
I'm anxious that you should be a good scholar, but I'm more anxious that you should be a good clean man.
And if you graduate with a sound conscience, I shan't care so much if there are a few holes in your Latin. There are two parts of a college education—the part that you get in the schoolroom from the professors, and the part that you get outside of it from the boys.
That's the really important part. For the first can only make you a scholar, while the second can make you a man.
Education's a good deal like eating—a fellow can't always tell which particular thing did him good, but he can usually tell which one did him harm.
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