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"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants."
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"A child's best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories."
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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."
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"The great cathedral space which was childhood."
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"To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing new sensations from an old experience..."
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"All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good."
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"You could hear the wind in the leaves, and on that wind traveled the screams of the kids on the playground in the distance, little kids figuring out how to be alive, how to navigate a world that wasn't made for them by navigating a playground that was."
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"When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll remember how safe you felt, tucked under the covers, or curled in someone's arms, as a story was spun around you like a web."
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"And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown."
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"No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book."
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"I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you."
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"He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent."
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"Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden."
Family
"Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match."
Force
"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."
Nature
"Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it."
Society
"The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."
Language
"There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything."
People
"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."
Man
"Jealousy is a dog's bark which attracts thieves."
Beauty
"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'"
Man
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