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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. |
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- Ogden Nash
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A grownup is a child with layers on. |
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- Paxton Blair
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A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. |
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- Robertson Davies
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A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. |
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- Colette
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. |
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- Leonard Bernstein
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A little boy came home and told his mother he had gotten first prize in an examination. The question had been How many legs does a horse have He had answered, Three. When his mother asked how he had gotten the first prize, he replied that all the other children had said, Two. |
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- Richard Kehl
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A lot of children know absolutely nothing about guns other than what they see on T.V., and those are the wrong things. |
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- Marion Hammer
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A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune. |
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- Richard Whately
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A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. |
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- James Agee
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A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . . |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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