"It's dangerous to be a child star, but it's dangerous to be a child in the ghetto, or to be a child at school being bullied."
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"I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?"
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"I have so much respect for my opponents; many of them watched the races as little children and were supporting me!"
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"To country people Cows are mild, And flee from any stick they throw; But I’m a timid town bred child, And all the cattle seem to know."
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"I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my child."
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"I sincerely believe that for the child, and for the parent seeking to guide him, it is not half so important to 'know' as to 'feel'."
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"Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!"
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"Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude."
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"Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently spare The shaft we raise to them and thee."
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"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude."
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"In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth."
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"The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child."
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"I feel that I have had a blow; but it is not, as I thought as a child, simply a blow from an enemy hidden behind the cotton wool of daily life; it is or will become a revelation of some order; it is a token of some real thing behind appearances; and I make it real by putting it into words. It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole; this wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together."
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"To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start."
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"You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power."
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"A people without children would face a hopeless future; a country without trees is almost as helpless."
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"For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
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"The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them."
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"Sticking to it is the genius."
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"Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension of the power to observe. The trouble, I should judge, to lie with the schools."
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