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If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
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.
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.
My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
My mother loved children--she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.
I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
I like trying [to get pregnant]. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after read more
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
