#children

To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. ↗

— William Steig

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I shall lend credit to nothing against my people which parents would not believe against their own children. ↗

— Elizabeth I

#believe #children #credit #i #lend

And all of Laura's stuff, what they wrote originally wasn't as good and Constance wound up doing that herself. That was all her stuff, reading to the child, because she had children herself and that's what she would have done. ↗

— William Devane

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I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The soul is healed by being with children. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them. ↗

— Donna Douglas

#fool #i #know #like #love

I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors. ↗

— Crystal Eastman

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Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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