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A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.
The Fish Can Sing
One cannot bring children into a world like this. One cannot perpetuate suffering, or increase the breed of these lustful animals, who have no lasting emotions, but only whims and vanities, eddying them now this way, now that.
Mrs. Dalloway
Live so when your children think of fairness and integrity they think of you.
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense
Childhood is not only the childhood we really had but also the impressions we formed of it in our adolescence and maturity. That is why childhood seems so long. Probably every period of life is multiplied by our reflections upon the next
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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