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"A child thinks twenty shillings and twenty years can scarce ever be spent."
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"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
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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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"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."
Opportunity
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
Wisdom
"Success has ruined many a man."
Success
"If you would have a faithful servant and one that you like serve yourself."
Responsibility
"Well done is better than well said."
Motivation
"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
Politics
"If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?"
Religion
"O vitae Philosophia dux! O virtutum indagatrix expultrixque vitiorum! Unus dies, bene et ex praeceptis tuis actus, peccanti immortalitati est anteponendus.translation (non-literal):O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher of virtues and expeller of vices! Just a single day lived well and according to your lessons is to be preferred to an eternity of errors.- Cicero, As quoted in Ben Franklin's Autobiography."
Philosophy
"All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
Peace
"I think all the heretics I have known have been virtuous men. They have the virtue of fortitude, or they would not venture to own their heresy; and they cannot afford to be deficient in any of the other virtues, as they would give advantage to their many enemies; and they have not, like orthodox sinners, such a number of friends to excuse or justify them."
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