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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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"When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels."
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"Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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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."
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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."
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"The fundamental emotional need of every child is being-with."
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"What was wonderful about childhood is that anything in it was a wonder. It was not merely a world full of miracles, it was a miraculous world."
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"More silence; children's silence, so desperately desired by adults yet eerie when it finally occurs."
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"I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time."
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"The past is the best prophet of the future."
Time
"For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?"
Politics
"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."
Life
"Prolonged endurance tames the bold."
Resilience
"We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive."
Trust
"Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire."
Love
"All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin."
Happiness
"He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat."
Behavior
"In her first passion woman loves her lover In all the others all she loves is love."
Romance
"There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion."
Religion
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