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I suffered very little bullying , and I never had a fight -- in all my time there were only three fights -- but I followed my own curiosities . I was already a very keen theologian and politician before I was fifteen . I was also intensely interested in modern warfare . I read the morning papers in the Reading Room during the midday recess , never missed the illustrated weeklies , and often when I could afford it I bought a PALL MALL GAZETTE on my way home . I do not think that I was very exceptional in that ; most intelligent boys , I believe , want naturally to be men , and are keenly interested in men 's affairs . There is not the universal passion for a magnified puerility among them it is customary to assume . I was indeed a voracious reader of everything but boys ' books -- which I detested -- and fiction .