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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.
-- Beatrix Campbell
1947-, British Journalist
Adults find
pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary,
but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it
out and then practice deception themselves.
-- Elias Canetti
1905-, Austrian Novelist,
Philosopher
Young people
should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of
necessary.
-- Al Capp
1909-1979, American
Cartoonist
There are few
successful adults who were not first successful children.
-- Alexander Chase
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There is no
finer investment for any community than putting milk into
babies.
-- Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman,
Prime Minister
To be ignorant
of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a
child.
-- Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman
Orator, Politician
Children have
more need of models than of critics.
-- Carolyn Coats
It is not a
bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely,
put parents in their place.
-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
1873-1954, French Author
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