![They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.](/assets/img/quote-photos/they-the-children-live-in-a-world-of-delightful-imagination-they-pursue-person.jpg)
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