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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely read more
All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
Every child is born a genius.
Every child is born a genius.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
Prolifers support warwaging candidates
whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.
Prolifers support warwaging candidates
whose bomber planes become partial birth abortionists.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, read more
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner.
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours read more
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
