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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tire

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. – Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943

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Deep meaning lies often in childish play. – Johann Friedrich von Schiller

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When I grow up I want to be a little boy. – Joseph Heller, Something Happened, 1974

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[N]egative experiences… and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people. – Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart

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Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as quoted by Hesketh Pearson (“Sir Herbert Tree,” Modern

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