"You will never be able to create wise men if you kill children in pranks"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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"Children start with the fact that they love their parents. Then they judge them. And almost never forgive them "
Oscar Wilde

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"From a five-year-old child to me, only a step. From a newborn to me, a terrible distance "
Lev Tolstoy

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"No one's beloved child ceases to be a child: he is only a small defenseless adult"
Gilbert Cesbron

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"Up to twenty-five years old, children love their parents; at the age of twenty-five they condemn them; then they forgive them "
Ippolit Tan

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"In the game of children, there is often a profound meaning"
Johann Schiller

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"We should not be proud of children, we make them worse. And if we teach them something to make them better, then they make us better than our contact with them "
Fedor Dostoevsky

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"The wife and children are teaching humanity; bachelors are gloomy and severe "
Francis Bacon

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"When the lips of a child were able to drink with a full measure the bitter cup of Malice, Suspicion, Despair, all the Love is not enough for one day to become lost without a trace, even if it briefly returns the light to the faded eyes and where the Unbelief is, will plant the seeds of the Faith"
Reddyard Kipling

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