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Children also
have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having
it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the
examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of
corruption from an early age.
-- Paul Klee
1879-1940, Swiss Artist
A child learns
to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out
his short pants.
-- Karl Kraus
1874-1936, Austrian Satirist
Children enjoy
the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
-- Jean De La Bruyere
1645-1696, French Writer
We inevitably
doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to
set their goals for them.
-- Dr. Jess Lair
American Professor, Counselor
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When I
consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every
street and blind alley swarms with them -- that the poorest
people commonly have them in most abundance -- that there
are few marriages that are not blest with at least one of
these bargains -- how often they turn out ill, and defeat
the fond hopes of their parents, taking to vicious courses,
which end in poverty, disgrace, the gallows, etc. -- I
cannot for my life tell what cause for pride there can
possibly be in having them.
-- Charles Lamb
1775-1834, British Essayist,
Critic
A child is fed
with milk and praise.
-- Mary Lamb
What the vast
majority of American children needs is to stop being
pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop
being catered to. In the final analysis it is not what you
do for your children but what you have taught them to do for
themselves that will make them successful human beings.
-- Ann Landers
1918-, American Advice
Columnist
Above all,
though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact
that they are in process of turning into them. For this they
may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to
adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.
-- Philip Larkin
1922-1986, British Poet
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