Quote by G. K. Chesterton

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.

Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even w

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