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Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
It is never too late to have a happy childhood
It is never too late to have a happy childhood
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.
 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. 
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin read more
There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity
 The children in Holland take pleasure in making
 What the children in England take pleasure in breaking.  
 The children in Holland take pleasure in making
 What the children in England take pleasure in breaking. 
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he 
will not depart read more 
 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he 
will not depart from it. 
 'Tis not a life,
 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.  
 'Tis not a life,
 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away. 
 Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
 Sailed off in a wooden shoe--
  Sailed on a river of read more 
 Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
 Sailed off in a wooden shoe--
  Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of dew.