J. B. Priestley Quotes About Children
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Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.
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It had the old double keyboard, an entirely different set of keys for capitals and figures, so that the paper seemed a long way off, and the machine was as big and solid as a battle cruiser. Typing was then a muscular activity. You could ache after it. If you were not familiar with those vast keyboards, your hand wandered over them like a child lost in a wood. The noise might have been that of a shipyard on the Clyde. You would no more have thought of carrying one of those grim structures as you would have thought of travelling with a piano.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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