He had headache; that's about the same thing." "He's staked high.

No one else would have dared to challenge the whole school in the way he did," said Cresswell, dropping his voice, but still, in the quiet air, not quite beyond Dick's hearing.
"It answered; it brought the right fellows to the front." "And shut the wrong fellows hopelessly out ?" "I hope not.

Many of them are only fools.

They think it's plucky to defy the powers that be, and quite forget it's pluckier to defy themselves." "That's a neat way of putting it, old man!" "There's a big bite this time!" said the Hermit.
So there was--three fish on two hooks, and it was some time before the diversion was disposed of.
"It's a pity every one can't be made to see he's his own worst enemy; it would simplify matters awfully.

If a youngster got it into his head that it wanted more pluck to go against himself than all the Templeton rules put together, we should get some surprises!" "No chance of that, I'm afraid, while there are fellows like Pledge, who make it a business to drag youngsters down." "You may say so.