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The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
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.
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of read more
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes read more
A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released. -Robert Penn Warren.
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about read more
Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
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.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
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.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
