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"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." Groucho Marx 4.4000 average rating  
"Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards." Author Unknown 4.3333 average rating  
"Monday's child is fair in face,Tuesday's child is full of grace,Wednesday's child is full of woe,Thursday's child has far to go,Friday's child is loving and giving,Saturday's child works hard for its living;And a child that's born on a Christmas day,Is fair and wise, good and gay." Author Unknown 4.0909 average rating  
"A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often." Author Unknown 3.6000 average rating  
"A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer." Author Unknown 4.5714 average rating  
"Children seldom misquote. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said." Author Unknown 4.7500 average rating  
"You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." Kahlil Gibran 5.0000 average rating  
"What is a home without children? Quiet." Henny Youngman 4.3333 average rating  
"You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again." Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.0000 average rating  
"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.9091 average rating  
"A child is a curly dimpled lunatic." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.0833 average rating  
"Children are all foreigners." Ralph Waldo Emerson 4.0000 average rating  
"D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children." W. Somerset Maugham 3.0000 average rating  
"We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up." Christopher Morley 5.0000 average rating  
"I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult." Fran Lebowitz  
"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates 4.8800 average rating  
"Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?" Albert Camus 4.8333 average rating  
 


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