For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap colored prints; unfashionable literature, church Latin, pornographic books badly spelt, grandmothers novels, fairy stories, little books for children, old operas, empty refrains, simple rhythms.
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If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.
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Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well,
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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Wedgies are unhealthy for children and other living things
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We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
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Designing a one-of-a-kind t-shirt is a wonderful way for children to express their creativity and boost self esteem. The EASY-T KIT Easy-To-Be-Me Children's Art Contest gives children the chance to create something beautiful to share, and wear, with others.
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For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody.
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Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.
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An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.
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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.
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Grown ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up.
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Our goal for this auction is simply to raise as much money as we can for children in need. We have no doubt that the fans will rally to support the cause just like their favorite athletes, sporting associations and entertainers that so readily made donations.
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You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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The dog was created especially for children. He is the God of frolic.
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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.
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