T. H. White quote: Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

~ T. H. White ~

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