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Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.
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In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.
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In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children. Travelling with children corresponds roughly to travelling third-class in Bulgaria. They tell me there is nothing lower in the world than third-class Bulgarian travel.
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A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.
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Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
September 15, 1889
Died:
November 21, 1945
(aged 56)
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