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It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

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Confronted with a film, the child hardly thinks at all... faced with some confused activity where human movement has pride of place. The beating of the heart, the to-and-fro of the eyes, supplant thought while the screen is showing the hero pursued by kidnappers or murderers and revolver shots explode in wads of cotton-wool.

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She could not forgive her sorrow for being bearable and for taking its place, between despair and indifference, in a spiritual region which allowed of diversions, pleasures, scruples, and compensations.

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In their friendship they were like two of a litter that can never play together without leaving traces of tooth and claw, wounding each other in the most sensitive places.

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I hate guests who complain of the cooking and leave bits and pieces all over the place and cream-cheese sticking to the mirrors.

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Born: January 28, 1873
Died: August 3, 1954 (aged 81)
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