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"And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23)."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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"All children are born rebels and explorers until they're taught to sit still and obey."
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"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."
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"Many of the things that grownups have chosen to ignore, the child understands deeply."
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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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"Don't try to make me grow up before my time."
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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."
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"Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent."
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"I do not think I liked being a child very much. It seemed like something one was intended to endure, not enjoy: a fifteen-year-long sentence to a world less interesting than the one that the other race inhabited."
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"She'd struck Esk once before " the blow a baby gets to introduce it to the world and give it a rough idea of what to expect from life."
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"An' I learned about women from 'er."
Learning


"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."
Time


"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."
Family


"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."
Mankind


"I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."
Wisdom


"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."
Life


"Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says."
Humor


"All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!"
Sociology


"Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din."
Courage


"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours."
Nature
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