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For a person in rugged health who is not particularly dressed up and does not want to write a letter or read the newspaper, we can imagine few diversions more enjoyable than to have a child turned loose upon him.

— Heywood Broun

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

So what if a kid dies? God will take care of him.

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Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds (1916)

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Thomas Szasz The Second Sin (1973)

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