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I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

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Whatever sense of professional competence we feel in adult life is less the sum of accomplishment than the absence of impossibility: it's really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place - relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.

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The adults were completely wrong.

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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.

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Adult males are what their moms designed them.

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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

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Let's abolish the term 'childish' because adults normally cause the largest problems.

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Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity.

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Young people and adults need equitable relationships-they do not need equal ones.

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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.

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According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

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This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

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PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.

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