I like children, he said to me one day at table. I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
Variant: Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
Variant: Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.
(The Poet at the Breakfast Table, 1872)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. It is by little things that we know ourselves. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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