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It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne
Children, Playing Games, Serious
Essais bk. 1, ch. 23 (1580)
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.