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Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before

Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. – John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells

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To trade a childhood wonder for a plausible explanation — is there a worst trade one makes in life? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted — stay up all night or eat ice cream straight out of the container. – Bill Bryson

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He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. – Herbert Gold

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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it. – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

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