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Alice Meynell on Children

1847–1922 England

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Children appeal to us by a variant of the quality of pathos.

Children of the Old Masters (Italian School) (1903)

There is something very cheerful and courageous in the setting out of a child on a journey of speech with so small baggage and with so much confidence.

The Children (1897)

Play is not for every hour of the day, or for any hour taken at random. There is a tide in the affairs of children. Civilization is cruel in sending them to bed at the most stimulating time of dusk.

The Children (1897)

Children have a fastidiousness that time is slow to cure. It is to be wondered, for example, whether if the elderly were half as hungry as children are they would yet find so many things at table to be detestable.

Childhood (1913)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alice Meynell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.