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"Marilla says that a large family was raised in that old house long ago, and that it was a real pretty place, with a lovely garden and roses climbing all over it. It was full of little children and laughter and songs; and now it is empty, and nothing ever wanders through it but the wind. How lonely and sorrowful it must feel! Perhaps they all come back on moonlit nights. . .the ghosts of the little children of long ago and the roses and the songs. . .and for a little while the old house can dream it is young and joyous again."Lucy Maud MontgomeryAnne Of Avonlea
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. . . for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself.Charles DickensA Christmas Carol
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These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.George EliotThe Mill on the Floss
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We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it . . .George EliotThe Mill on the Floss
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" . . . every time a child says, `I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."James M. BarriePeter Pan
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"You see, Wendy, when the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies."James M. BarriePeter Pan
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"The twins no longer derive their sustenance from Nature's founts - in short," said Mr. Micawber, in one of his bursts of confidence, "they are weaned . . ."Charles DickensDavid Copperfield
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"My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Adventure of the Copper Beeches
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It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .George GissingThe Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
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My dear old doll! I was such a shy little thing that I seldom dared to open my lips, and never dared to open my heart, to anybody else.Charles DickensBleak House
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"My meaning is, that no man can expect his children to respect what he degrades."Charles DickensMartin Chuzzlewit
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There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives? We are children of a large family, and must learn, as such children do, not to expect that our hurts will be made much of--to be content with little nurture and caressing, and help each other the more.George EliotAdam Bede
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I have been looking on, this evening, at a merry company of children assembled round that pretty German toy, a Christmas Tree. The tree was planted in the middle of a great round table, and towered high above their heads. It was brilliantly lighted by a multitude of little tapers; and everywhere sparkled and glittered with bright objects.Charles DickensA Christmas Tree
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Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.George EliotThe Mill on the Floss
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"Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can."Thomas HardyJude the Obscure
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"The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still."Charles DickensA Christmas Carol
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" . . . and yet there is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."Jane AustenSense and Sensibility
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. . . the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.Mary ShelleyFrankenstein
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy of her own girlhood, the child who had clung to her hand. Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.Sir Arthur Conan DoyleThe Hound of the Baskervilles
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"A startled or surprised look from one of you when I spoke sharply rebuked me more than any words could have done, and the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy."Louisa May AlcottLittle Women
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