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Childhood Quotes

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.


The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.


In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.