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.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Our children's children will hear a good story.
Our children's children will hear a good story.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone, or forbid your children to do it.
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Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
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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.
