"Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life."
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"Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly."
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"The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."
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"Childhood is the sleep of reason."
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"Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers."
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"Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them - certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go."
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"I wanted to be a surgeon, possibly influenced by the qualities of our family doctor who cared for our childhood ailments."
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"Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke."
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"Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old."
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"I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of divorce really affected me."
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"If you want to understand your parents more, get them to talk about their own childhood; and if you listen with compassion, you will learn where their fears and rigid patterns come from. Those people who "did all that stuff to you" were just as frightened and scared as you are."
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"For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself."
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"I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife."
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"The elements of instruction should be presented to the mind in childhood, but not with any compulsion."
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"But let us not forget that cities are like human beings. They are born, they go through childhood and adolescence, they grow old, and eventually they die"
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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."
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"No I don't get scared when returning kicks or worry about getting hurt. I have been doing this since childhood so I am used to it."
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"Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak."
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"What does the Christian faith say about Mary's childhood. We do not know much of Mary's childhood."
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"The innocence of childhood is like the innocence of a lot of animals."
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