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Quotes from Childhood — Alice Meynell

1847–1922 England

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What else, indeed, should mediocrity be but widespread, anywhere?

Childhood (1913)

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)

It is for fear of the grown-up, or at least out of respect towards them, that a chapter must be given to fairies. If the children do not care very much for fairies, they must be made to care. "Who is to care if they do not? Who is to be properly childlike if they are not?"

Childhood (1913)

It may well be doubted whether children are generally credulous.[…] For children do not believe in fairies a jot. I have just asked my youngest daughter whether she believed in them, and she said "Of course not—only I liked the stories." Fiction to children is fiction and not fact.

Childhood (1913)

Attribution

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