People/George D. Prentice/Quote
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
Prenticeana (1860)
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.
It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.
A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.
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Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Always end the name of your child with a vowel, so that when you yell the name will carry.
Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.
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