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Adulthood

«An adult male living alone stops being a vaguely tragicomic bachelor once he is found in the circumstance of simultaneously taking a whiz and eating a sandwich»
«Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods»
«Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas»
«A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.»
Author: Thomas S. Szasz (Professor) | About: Adulthood, Children | Keywords: adult, realizes
«Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.»
Author: Dr. Seuss (Cartoonist, Writer) | About: Adulthood | Keywords: adults, obsolete
«A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.»
Author: John Updike | About: Adulthood, Patience | Keywords: adult male, consumes, each year
«Adults are obsolete children.»
Author: Dr. Seuss (Cartoonist, Writer) | About: Adulthood, Children | Keywords: adults, obsolete
«Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.»
«Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural»
«As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.»

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