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"Children are taught to look down on their nurses (nannies), to treat them as mere servants. When their task is completed the child is withdrawn or the nurse is dismissed. Her visits to her foster-child are discouraged by a cold reception. After a few years the child never sees her again. The mother expects to take her place, and to repair by her cruelty the results of her own neglect. But she is greatly mistaken; she is making an ungrateful foster-child, not an affectionate son; she is teaching him ingratitude, and she is preparing him to despise at a later day the mother who bore him, as he now despises his nurse."
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"Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain."
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"I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort."
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"Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics."
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"A child is child."
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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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"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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"Leading up to Christmas, there was talk of Santa. But I'd never even heard of Santa. Bunty, one of the workers who I grew to love, tried to explain, 'He brings little angels like you, presents."
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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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"Kids. You gotta love them. I adore children. A little salt, a squeeze of lemon--perfect."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."
Nature
"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
Books
"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."
Knowledge
"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."
Age
"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
Performance
"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
Happiness
"Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases."
Knowledge
"Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death."
Death
"You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one."
Wisdom
"Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger."
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