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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 11, 2020
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943  
Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961), My Life and Hard Times (1933)  
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
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Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )  
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
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Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)  
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