It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This … - Angela Thirkell

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Angela Thirkell

It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.

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