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Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories Quotes: Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
         

Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.


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Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.
         



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This page presents the quote "Children are the closest we have to wisdom, and they become adults the moment that final drop of everything mysterious is strained from them.". Author of this quote is Simon Van Booy, Love Begins in Winter: Five Stories. This quote is about mystery, adulthood, children, childhood, wisdom,.