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“Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.”

Ifs Mind Children Natural Knowing Creatures Adults Affection Selfish

Book:A Treatise on Parents and Children

Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children

“The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself.”

Children Littles Found Poor Support Land Creatures Skins Farmers Worthless Dinosaurs Teddy

Book:Letters and Speeches

Source: Letters and Speeches

“I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.”

Knows Children Sweet Bears Creatures Delicate Sweetest Sweet Child

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him.”

Believe Children Sometimes Names Poor Existence Creatures Charity Seven Thee Strings Distress Assistance Purses Small Child Unwelcome Bowels Rakes

Book:The Essays of Elia

Source: The Essays of Elia

“Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay!”

Men Children Life Is Humanity Sorrow Creatures Naked Day To Day Clay Children Of Men

Book:The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the Original

Source: The Birds: Intended to Convey Some Notion of Its Effect as an Acted Play, and to Illustrate Certain Points of Dramatic Humour and Character Discoverable in the Original