{"id":10657,"date":"2018-04-08T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T22:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10657"},"modified":"2018-08-06T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T12:45:14","slug":"46-great-opening-lines-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=10657","title":{"rendered":"46 Great Opening Lines: 33"},"content":{"rendered":"

To rear a boy under what parents call the ‘sheltered life’ system is, if the boy must go into the world and fend for himself, not wise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Opening line, Thrown Away<\/em>, Rudyard Kipling, 1890<\/p>\n

In this beginning there’s a hint about the ending.<\/p>\n

The story comes in a little black Penguin book, The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows<\/em> by Rudyard Kipling, a collection of six stories taken from a larger collection, Plain Tales from the Hills.<\/em><\/p>\n

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It’s a story of a Boy who “was beautifully taught in all that wins marks by a private tutor, and carried the extra weight of ‘never having given his parents an hour’s anxiety in his life’.”<\/p>\n

Most Boys give their parents an hour’s anxiety, and countless hours of unspeakable joy.<\/p>\n

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Singing sons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

*<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To rear a boy under what parents call the ‘sheltered life’ system is, if the boy must go into the world and fend for himself, not wise. Opening line, Thrown Away, Rudyard Kipling, 1890 In this beginning there’s a hint about the ending. The story comes in a little black Penguin book, The Gate of … <\/p>\n

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