"Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist……" — Peter York

"Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video."

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Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. — Judith Martin
A lot of my hair stylists and my beauty team that I work with are gay so I hang out… — Britney Spears
As hard as I've tried, I don't know how not to be adorable. — Justin Bieber
Be adorable always to each other; respect is everlasting. — Clarence Day
Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them… — Alvin Francis Poussaint
America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco. — Unknown Author
I wish I could pass my life at the foot of the holy tabernacles in which our adorable Saviour dwells. — Unknown Author
Why can't I be the adorable one? — Dorothy Kilgallen
Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought… — Meryl Streep
I have so many girl crushes, it changes all the time. I love Catherine Zeta Jones, she's so beautiful, Lucy… — Katrina Bowden

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