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T.H. White, The Book of Merlyn Quotes: Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
         

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.


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