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childhood approval adults
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. C. S. Lewis
childhood disease literature
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood. Jane Yolen
childhood fundamentals conditions
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness. Jane Smiley
childhood secret fatherhood
Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them! Max Muller
childhood facts matter
As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself. Michael Gruber
childhood
I had a relatively tumultuous childhood. Jesse Metcalfe
childhood germs excess
An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem. Gaston Bachelard
childhood lasts
Childhood lasts all through life.
childhood world lasts
Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
excess leads palace road until
The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom... for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. William Blake
excess meat
Excess in all other Things whatever, as well as in Meat and Drink, is also to be avoided. Benjamin Franklin
excess fun
What fun it would be to be poor, as long as one was excessively poor! Anything in excess is most exhilarating Jean Anouilh
excess disappear misers
I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things. Albert Camus
excess causes bears
The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population. Thomas Malthus
excess interiors exterior
They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior Romain Gary
excess brightness ruins
His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd. John Milton
excess good-things mischievous
the excess of all good things is mischievous. Lydia M. Child
excess fall mere mind state
Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. Charles Dickens