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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
Children
Franklin P. Jones

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Children need models rather than critics.
Children
Joseph Joubert

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A child miseducated is a child lost.
Children
John F. Kennedy

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A new idea is like a child. It's easier to conceive than to deliver.
Ideas
Ted Koysis

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Children
Karl Kraus

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Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?
Army and Navy
Karl Kraus

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Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
Children
Jean De La Bruyere

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We inevitably doom our children to failure and frustration when we try to set their goals for them.
Children
Dr. Jess Lair

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Lawyers I suppose were children once.
Law and Lawyers
Charles Lamb

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A child is fed with milk and praise.
Children
Mary Lamb

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Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Laughter
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
Children
Mel Lazarus

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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Beauty
Fran Lebowitz

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Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Food and Eating
Fran Lebowitz

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Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.
Children
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.
Uncategorised
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your children.
Insanity
Samuel Levenson

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Having children makes one no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
Parents and Parenting
Michael Levine

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Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.
Children
Roger Lewin

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The four stages of life are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.
Life and Living
Art Linkletter

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Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
Children
Lazarus Long

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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Children
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.
Photography
Norman Mailer

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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Writers and Writing
Norman Mailer

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I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but innocence.
Religion
Christopher Marlowe

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun