If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.
You never forget the people who were kind to you in childhood, do you, sir?
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