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"Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life."
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"It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these."

"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."

"The happiness of childhood, the calming of a child's fears and the healthy development of its self-confidence depend directly upon love."

"Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child."

"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."

"Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged."

"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."

"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
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