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The first duty of a State is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed, and educated, till it attain years of discretion.

1867

★ 1.8

Children are the future not because they will one day be adults but because humanity is becoming more and more a child, because childhood is the image of the future.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.8

Interview · Magazine

Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth.

Paris Review · 1969

★ 1.9

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

An Essay on Man · 1733

★ 1.9

Play · Tragedy (play)

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 3.2

Scripture · Religious literature

Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me. But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck, and he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:5-6 · 60

★ 3.7

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

Michel de Montaigne

Essays · 1580

★ 3.7

Scripture · Religious literature

But Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven."

Matthew 19:14 · 60

★ 3.8

Religious literature

The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.

Confessions · 400

★ 4.0

Autobiography and memoir

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings · 1969

★ 4.0

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Of all wild creatures, the child is the most intractable.

Laws · 346 BC

★ 4.9

Scripture · Religious literature

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:28

1405 BC

★ 6.2