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Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new read more
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and read more
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw read more
I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight read more
What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children are poor men's riches.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.