acute quotes

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themöcannot but deny them passionately.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  JohnTanner. Man and Superman, act1.

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