"A little curly-headed good-for-nothing And mischief-making monkey from his birth."

Childhood, Joy, Humor, Innocence

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"A child has an ingrained fancy for coal, not for the gross materialistic reason that it builds up fires by which we cook and are warmed, but for the infinitely nobler and more abstract reason that it blacks his fingers."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Hat's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

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"Not having yet passed through those bitter experiences which enforce upon older years circumspection and coldness, I deprived myself of the pure delight of a fresh, childish instinct for the absurd purpose of trying to resemble grown-up people."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"One day, you will be old enough to start reading fairytales again."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"A boy is of all wild beasts the most difficult to manage."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

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"In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy."

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"Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers."

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"I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor."

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"Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life."

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"If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company."

Solitude

"Let us have Wine and Women Mirth and Laughter Sermons and soda-water the day after."

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"What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it."

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"Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate And whatever sky's above me Here's a heart for every fate."

Fate

"Who loves, raves."

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