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A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to read more
A society in which adults are estranged from the world of children, and often from their own childhood, tends to hear children's speech only as a foreign language, or as a lie. Children have been treated. as congenital fibbers, fakers and fantasisers.
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as read more
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their read more
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
