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| Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control. |
| Richard Bach |
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| Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision. |
| Aldous Huxley |
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| Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat. |
| Fran Lebowitz |
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| Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of. |
| Peter Ustinov |
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| Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for |
| Ogden Nash |
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| Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Children from the age of five to ten should watch more television. Television depicts adults as rotten SOB's, given to fistfights, gunplay, and other mayhem. Kids who believe this about grownups aren't likely to argue about bedtime. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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| Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. |
| Oscar Wilde |
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| Children have but little charity for one another's defects |
| Mark Twain |
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| Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. |
| Socrates |
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| Children, obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right |
| Bible |
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| Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure |
| Henry David Thoreau |
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| Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature |
| Luther Burbank |
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| Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. |
| Fran Lebowitz |
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| Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right |
| Bible |
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| Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective. |
| P. J. O'Rourke |
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