Truer Words Were Never Spoken.
In 1908 Lord Robert Baden-Powell published Scouting for Boys, a worldwide bestseller which led to the founding of the Boy Scout movement. Here are a few pearls that never survived past the first edition
"Fried snake, like fried eel, is not half bad"
"Scouts do not snore at night, and so give themselves away to an enemy"
"Every boy ought to learn how to shoot and to obey orders, else he is no more good when war breaks out than an old woman, and merely gets killed like a squealing rabbit."

Which reminds me, fried rabbit is not half bad, either.