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The decision to have a child is both a private and a public decision, for children are our collective future.
(Sylvia Ann Hewitt (20th century), economist. A Lesser Life, ch. 6 (1986).)
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So, laying his cheek against the dresser's wooden one,
He died making up stories, the ones
Not every child wanted to listen to.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "At the Inn.")
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O hateful Error, Melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not?
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Messala, in Julius Caesar, act 5, sc. 3, l. 67-9.
On the death of Cassius, who mistakenly thought the battle lost, and took his own life.)
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And year by year the landscape grow
Familiar to the stranger's child;
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. In Memoriam A. H. H. (Fr. CI, l. 19-20). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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Fear not, then, thou child infirm
There's no god dare wrong a worm.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Compensation," Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).)
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As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Tenth Selection, New York (1992).)
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And every stone shall cry,
In praises of the child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.
(Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Christmas Hymn (l. 29-32). . .
Oxford Book of Christmas Poems, The. Michael Harrison and Christopher Stuart-Clark, eds. (1983) Oxford University Press.)
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
(Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist. Trans. by Lorenzo O'Rourke. "Thoughts," Postscriptum de ma vie, in Victor Hugo's Intellectual Autobiography, Funk and Wagnalls (1907).)
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Then spare the rod and spoil the child.
(Samuel Butler (1612-1680), British poet. Hudibras, pt. 2, cto. 1 (1663-1678).)
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For woman, man is a means: the end is always the child.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 85, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, First Part, "On Little Old and Young Women," (1883).)
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