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Whenever people have asked me which among my novels is my favourite I have always evaded a direct answer, being strongly of the mind that in sheer invidiousness that question is fully comparable to asking a man to list his children in the order in which he loves them. A paterfamilias worth his salt will, if he must, speak about the peculiar attractiveness of each child.
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
I have to say Miss Brown, that your methods are outdatedand incorrect.Butthechildrenloveyouand are learning well.Do not on any account make any changes.
I'm spending my children's inheritance.
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below!
Young children [are] sooner allured by love than driven by beating to attain good learning.
When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.
Political history isfar too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young.Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for theyare impediments to great enterprises, eitherof virtue or mischief.Certainly thebest works, and ofgreatest meritfor thepublic, haveproceededfromthe unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
There are some others that account wife and children but as bills of charge.
Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yetthey are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.
When the world was young it begat more children; but now it is old it begets fewer: for I may justlyaccount new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms.
Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. They must, they have no other models.
Ithink it iswellalsofor themaninthestreettorealizethat there is no power on earth that can protect him from being bombed.Whatever people will tell him, the bomber will always get through.The only defence is in offence, which means that you have to kill more women and children more quickly thanthe enemy if you want to save yourselves.
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one,Ifeel.Thereare only individual egos, crazy for love.
In retrospect it always seems as if everything had to develop just the way it did. I call this view the fallacy of retrospective determinismöwhich looks at the modern world as a victory of the children of light over the children of darkness if we approve of the development, and of darkness over light if we condemn it.
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