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Quote by Ellen Glasgow
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of ch

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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Experience
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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. – Ellen Glasgow

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Success
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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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Childhood is a short season. – Helen Hayes

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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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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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