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“When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

tags: childhood, growing-up, innocence

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“What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason”
― Robert Harris, Pompeii

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“The things we teach our children are cheerful, pleasant lies: and it is high time that someone has the fortitude to admit it”
― Vina Delmar

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“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations-such is a pleasure beyond compare.”
― Lucia St Clair Robson

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“It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

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