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The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and Romans, and in the works of the first great educator of the modern era, Comenius, children were recognized as being both different from adults and different from one another with respect to their stages of development. To be sure, the scientific study of children and the increased length of life in modern times have enhanced our understanding of age differences, but they have always been acknowledged.
(David Elkind (20th century), U.S. psychologist, child development specialist, author. Miseducation, ch. 3 (1987).)
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That great Cathedral space which was childhood.
(Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), British novelist. "A Sketch of the Past," Moments of Being (written 1939-1940), ed. Jeanne Schulkind (1976).)
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Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Quoted by Thornton Wilder in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. George Plimpton (1958).)
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Your Charms in harmless Childhood lay,
Like metals in the mine,
Age from no face took more away,
Than Youth conceal'd in thine.
(Sir Charles Sedley (1639-1701), British courtier, poet. The Mulberry Garden (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)
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But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
(Louise Bogan (1897-1970), U.S. poet and critic. repr. In Selected Criticism: Poetry and Prose (1955). "Childhood's False Eden," (1940).
Referring to Katherine Mansfield.)
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deep in the manhood his childhood
so swiftly led to, a small brook rock-leaping
into the rapt, imperious, seagoing river.
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923, Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Son.")
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All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Lovelace, in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 263, AMS Press (1990).)
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Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.
(Arnold Gesell (20th century), U.S. child development specialist, and Frances L. Ilg (20th century), U.S. child development specialist. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, ch. 24 (1943).)
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