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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."	Groucho Marx
"Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards."	Author Unknown
"Monday's child is fair in face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child works hard for its living;And a child that's born on a Christmas day,Is fair and wise, good and gay."	Author Unknown
"A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often."	Author Unknown
"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer."	Author Unknown
"Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."	Author Unknown
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."	Kahlil Gibran
"What is a home without children? Quiet."	Henny Youngman
"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again."	Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A child is a curly dimpled lunatic."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Children are all foreigners."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children."	W. Somerset Maugham
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up."	Christopher Morley
"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult."	Fran Lebowitz
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."	Socrates
"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?"	Albert Camus

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