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It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

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I never talk about 'Harry Potter' because I think that would rob children of something that's private to them. I think too many things get explained, so I hate talking about it.

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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.

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Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

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In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

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The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.

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I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

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It is a shameful thing to insult a child.

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There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he looked upon, that object he became.

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Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

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A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

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He who can reach a child's heart can reach the worlds heart.

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I love you, my brother, whoever you are - whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse paths of religion are fingers of the loving hand of the one supreme being, a hand extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, eager to receive all.

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. .we would have to say that hereditary succession is harmful. You may say the king, having sovereign power, will not in that case hand over to his children. But it is hard to believe that: it is a difficult achievement, which expects too much virtue of human nature.

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Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

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If you do not give your children freedom, when they grow up, they will break away from the family, and then your hearts will be broken.

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There even are places where English completely disappears. In America, they haven't used it for years! Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

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