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"Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious."
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"A child is child."
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"Granny," said Esk, in the exasperated and remarkably adult voice children use to berate their wayward elders. "I don't think you quite understand. I don't want to hit the ground. It's never done anything to me."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."
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"Kids don't have much accumulated and deep memories and that's why they happily live in the present time!"
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"When children are taught to be "good" and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people's happiness."
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"For her next birthday she'd asked for a telescope. Her mother had been alive then, and had suggested a pony, but her father had laughed and bought her a beautiful telescope, saying: "Of course she should watch the stars! Any girl who cannot identify the constellation of Orion just isn't paying attention!" And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked. Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe?"
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"Lord Emsworth belonged to the people-like-to-be-left-alone-to-amuse-themselves-when-they-come-to-a-place school of hosts."
Society
"I had one of those ideas I do sometimes get, though admittedly a chump of the premier class."
Creativity
"Red hair, sir, in my opinion, is dangerous."
Awareness
"I have been studying the principles of socialism deeply of late, and I came to the conclusion that I must join the cause. It looked good to me. You work for the equal distribution of property and start in by swiping all you can and sitting on it. Ah, noble scheme! Me for it!"
Politics
"Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character."
Morality
"The storm is over, there is sunlight in my heart. I have a glass of wine and sit thinking of what has passed."
Reflection
"What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?"
Society
"Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good."
Humor
"What George was thinking was that the late king Herod had been unjustly blamed for a policy which had been both statesmanlike and in the interests of the public. He was blaming the mawkish sentimentality of the modern legal system which ranks the evisceration and secret burial of small boys as a crime."
Society
"Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them."
Memory
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