A Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.
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I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school.
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Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
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