"Little children have much in common with intellectuals. Their noise is annoying; their silence is suspicious "
Gabriel Laub

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"Women's love is superior to that of men. The difference that goes to children is enormous "
Hugo Steinhaus

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"Removing from the conditions of society and approaching nature, we involuntarily become children: everything that has been acquired falls away from the soul, and it becomes again the same as it once was and surely will ever be again"
Mikhail Lermontov

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"The merit of the father does not apply to his son"
Miguel Saavedra

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"Parents love their children with an alarming and condescending love that spoils them. There is another love, attentive and calm, which makes them honest. And this is the true love of the father "
Denis Diderot

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"A child who suffers less insults, grows up by a person more conscious of his dignity"
Nikolay Chernyshevsky

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"I'm sure that if I had to choose: to live where the children's racket does not stop for a minute, or where it has never been heard, all normal and healthy people would prefer an unceasing noise to the incessant silence"
Bernard Show

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"God keeps fools and children," says the proverb. This is the real truth. I know this, because I checked myself "
Mark Twain

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"Not in the mental abilities of women, but in the nature of its nature, rich means for raising children are hidden. Concentration of attention, accuracy, patience, perseverance, love of order, tenderness, manners, taste and, finally, innate love for children - all these are qualities that occur more in a woman than in a man "
Konstantin Ushinsky

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