"Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it."

-- Lyman Abbott

#Hurt Quotes #Children Quotes #Pain Quotes

“There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.”

Source : Benvenuto Cellini (1956). “The Autobiography”
“There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.”
“Nature alone cures. ... what nursing has to do ... is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him.”

Source : Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.17, University of Pennsylvania Press
“At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 2, 2015
“Unlike the Marxists, the Nazis did not advocate public ownership of the means of production. They did demand that the government oversee and run the nation's economy. The issue of legal ownership is secondary; what counts is the issue of control. Private citizens, therefore, may continue to hold titles to property-so long as the state res...erves to itself the unqualified right to regulate the use of their property.”
“If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her.”
“The inevitable consequence of love is the building of temples.”
“We in Wales see ourselves as a nation. We're not English. We're far from it. Yeah, we're part of the U.K. We've benefited from being members of the U.K.”

Source : "After Voting For Brexit, Wales Weighs In On EU Business Uncertainty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

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