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• When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

  Brian Aldiss

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• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they’ll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

  Andy Warhol

  Topics in Children

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• Children aren’t dogs; adults aren’t gods

  Topics in Children, Haitian Proverbs

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• If adults want to take such chances (with marijuana) that is their business

  Ronald Reagan

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• Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open then. If the mouth has fallen sourly yours the blame: all the meanness your youth concealed have been gathering in your face. But the pretty thoughts and sweet ways and dear, forgotten kindnesses linger there also, to bloom in your twilight like evening primroses.

  J. M. Barrie

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• Affection between adults – if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children – and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

  Dr. Seuss

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• The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today.

  Margaret Mead

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• For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.

  William J. Bennett

  Topics in Children

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

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• What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

  Sigmund Freud

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• What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

  Simone de Beauvoir

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• If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in

  Rachel Carson

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

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• I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child,’ for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

  Fran Lebowitz

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• When we accept any discipline for ourselves, we try to avoid everything except that which is necessary for our purpose; it is this purposefulness, which belongs to the adult mind, that we force upon school children. We say, “Never keep your mind aler

  Rabindranath Tagore

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• I’m all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults

  Gore Vidal

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• Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards

  George Orwell

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• Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.

  G. K. Chesterton

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• Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their s*x drives is like talking about a window without glass.

  Grace Metalious

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