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“I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!” William Shakespeare, “King Lear” - 1623

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.” William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice” - 1600

“Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo...” James Joyce, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” - 1916

“Grief fills the room up of my absent child, lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, remembers me of all his gracious parts, stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; then have I reason to be...” William Shakespeare, “King John” - 1623

“Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one expected it to be.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.” Rudyard Kipling, “The Jungle Book” - 1894

“I treat my poor heart like a sick child, and gratify its every fancy.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“That the huge, fierce brute loved this child of another race is beyond question, and he, too, gave to the great, hairy beast all the affection that would have belonged to his fair young mother had she lived.” Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes” - 1912

“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do, but nobody told me anything.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“Perhaps, people of our kind can't love. The childlike people can; that's their secret.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of the child.” Emma Goldman, “Anarchism and Other Essays” - 1910

“What’s in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.” James Joyce, “Ulysses” - 1922

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