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Child Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the child too often…
- Every child can remember laying his head in the grass, staring into the infinitesimal forest and seeing it grow populous with fairy armies.
- To love playthings well as a child, to lead an adventurous and honorable youth, and to settle when the time arrives, into a green and…
- A child should always say what's true, And speak when he is spoken to, And behave mannerly at table: At least as far as he…
- Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.
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