Quote by Louise Bogan
But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a h

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. – Louise Bogan

Other quotes by Louise Bogan

Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier. – Louise Bogan

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Language
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Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread. – Louise Bogan

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Women
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. – Louise Bogan

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Intelligence
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So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. – Josh Billings

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Youth

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward. – Ambrose Bierce

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Youth

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Youth

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