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Childhood is the place where nobody dies, Nobody that matters, that is.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay...
CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth -- two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
-- Ambrose Bierce...
CHILDHOOD...That happy period when nightmares occur only during sleep.
Childish game: one at which your spouse beats you.
Child of a Looser God
Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?
-- Mrs. Barbauld (1743-1825) -- Hymns in Prose, xiii...
Child rearing myth #1: Labor ends when the baby is born.
Children and fooles cannot lye. -- John Heywood (c. 1565) -- Proverbes, Part i, Chap. xi
Children, apples of my eyes, when you feel like weeping gems, go to the garbage dumps, the dead ends of the labyrinth, the oubliettes, the cemeteries, the charnal grounds.
Find yourself a spot there a...
Children are a great comfort in your old age; and they help you reach it faster, too.
-- Lionel Kauffma...

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