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

T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.12, University of Texas Press
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.