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The darling mispronunciations of childhood!--dear me, there's no music
that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves
into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again. ...this curious & pathetic fact of life: that when parents are old
& their children grown up, the grown-up children are not the persons
they formerly were; that their former selves have wandered away, never
to return again, save in dream-glimpses of their young forms that tarry
a moment & gladden the eye, then vanish & break the heart. |
 Clemens with his wife and daughters from ST. NICHOLAS, June 1916 |
Familiarity breeds contempt--and children.
- Notebook, 1894
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really
true. I know because I have tested it.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
Children have but little charity for one another's defects.
- Autobiography of Mark Twain
...what are they in the world for I don't know, for they are of no practical
value as far as I can see. If I could beget a typewriter--but no, our fertile
days are over.
- Letter to William Dean Howells, 12 May 1899
I thought this was a home. It was a superstition. What is a home without a
child?
- Letter to Dorothy Quick, 9 August 1907
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