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Ellen Glasgow Quotes about Children

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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

Ellen Glasgow
Children, Giving, Childhood
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.14, University of Virginia Press

The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.

Ellen Glasgow
Nature, Children, Compassion

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

Ellen Glasgow
Children, Fun, Men

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