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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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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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You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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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.