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title: "1 Child Joy Quotes By Iona Opie"
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> [“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings to the sea, but occasions when he escapes into places that are disused and overgrown and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/the-literature-of-childhood-abounds-with-evidence-that-the-peaks-of-a/)

Iona Opie

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## More by Iona Opie

> [“Mother Goose will show newcomers to this world how astonishing, beautiful, capricious, dancy, eccentric, funny, goluptious, haphazard, intertwingled, joyous, kindly, loving, melodious, naughty, outrageous,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/mother-goose-will-show-newcomers-to-this-world-how-astonishing/)

Iona Opie

> [“The literature of childhood abounds with evidence that the peaks of a child's experience are not visits to the cinema, or even family outings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/the-literature-of-childhood-abounds-with-evidence-that-the-peaks-of-a/)

Iona Opie

> [“If you can't go to Hollywood You don't have to cry; Clark Gable is good looking But so am I.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/if-you-can-t-go-to-hollywood-you-don-t-have-to-cry-clark-gable-is/)

Iona Opie

> [“Daisy, Daisy, the coppers are after you, If they catch you they'll give you a month or two, They'll tie you up with wi-er…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iona-opie/daisy-daisy-the-coppers-are-after-you-if-they-catch-you-they-ll-give/)

Iona Opie

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