"A child with an intense capacity for feeling can suffer to a degree that is beyond any degree of adult suffering, because imagination, ignorance, and the conviction of utter helplessness are untempered either by reason or by experience."

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Source : E. M. Delafield (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Delafield (Illustrated)”, p.1488, Delphi Classics

E. M. Delafield

#Children Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Chicago is a wonderful area because it's blessed with a tremendous number of museums of various sorts, not only the Art Institute of Chicago but the Field Museum of Natural History, the Oriental Museum on the south side.”
“Those who are near me do not know that you are nearer to me than they are Those who speak to me do not know that my heart is full with your unspoken words Those who crowd in my path do not know that I am walking alone with you Those who love me do not know that their love brings you to my heart”
“When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy...”
“I'll do my bit tonight, but forgive me if it's a little harder to keep going than normal. Forgive me if I'm not superwoman after all." "Not superwoman?" he exclaimed, putting a hand on his chest in mock surprise. "You've lied to me all these years!”
“If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.”
“Being a politician is a poor profession. Being a public servant is a noble one.”

Source : "Growing Up: Letters to American Boys & Girls". Book by Herbert Hoover, 1962.
“And now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: May they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works”
“My whole act is off the top of my head.”

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