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The child with
his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every
sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his
sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a
lead dragoon, or a gingerbread dog, individualizing
everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new
thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which
this day of continual pretty madness has incurred. But
Nature has answered her purpose with the curly, dimpled
lunatic. She has tasked every faculty, and has secured the
symmetrical growth of the bodily frame, by all these
attitudes and exertions --an end of the first importance,
which could not be trusted to any care less perfect than her
own.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet,
Essayist
Who is not
attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to
creep, and to play with them?
-- Epictetus
50-120, Stoic Philosopher
Children are
excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest
defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive
nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
-- Francois FéNelon
1651-1715, French Writer
When children
are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
-- Henry Fielding
1707-1754, British Novelist,
Dramatist
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Let the
child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be
what thou wilt.
-- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American
Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Children are
completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and
strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
-- Sigmund Freud
1856-1939, Austrian Physician
- Founder of Psychoanalysis
Strange new
problems are being reported in the growing generations of
children whose mothers were always there, driving them
around, helping them with their homework --an inability to
endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal
of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
-- Betty Friedan
1921-, American Feminist
Writer
It is
dangerous to confuse children with angels.
-- David Fyfe
1900-1967, British Statesman,
Jurist
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