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Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us.

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No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

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Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grow...more

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Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

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If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of chil...more

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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I...more

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I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

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She wasted all her school time wanting to be the age she is now, and she'll waste all the rest of her life trying to stay that age.