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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no child

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

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The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good. – Katherine Anne Porter

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