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Johnny Nolan is a bootblack with little ambition who hangs around with similarly unmotivated bootblacks. Johnny openly admits that he’s lazy, but he also doesn’t believe that working hard will save him. Rather, he sees his life as already prescribed, with no way to rise from his current status, even though he witnesses Dick do just that.
Johnny Nolan Quotes in Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
The Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks quotes below are all either spoken by Johnny Nolan or refer to Johnny Nolan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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Now, in the boot-blacking business, as well as in higher avocations, the same rule prevails, that energy and industry are rewarded, and indolence suffers. Dick was energetic and on the alert for business, but Johnny was the reverse. The consequence was that Dick earned probably three times as much as the other.
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Chapter 8
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I ain’t got no mother. She died when I wasn’t but three years old. My father went to sea; but he went off before mother died, and nothin’ was ever heard of him. I expect he got wrecked, or died at sea.
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Johnny Nolan Quotes in Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks
The Ragged Dick: Or, Street Life in New York with the Boot Blacks quotes below are all either spoken by Johnny Nolan or refer to Johnny Nolan. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
Now, in the boot-blacking business, as well as in higher avocations, the same rule prevails, that energy and industry are rewarded, and indolence suffers. Dick was energetic and on the alert for business, but Johnny was the reverse. The consequence was that Dick earned probably three times as much as the other.
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Chapter 8
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I ain’t got no mother. She died when I wasn’t but three years old. My father went to sea; but he went off before mother died, and nothin’ was ever heard of him. I expect he got wrecked, or died at sea.
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