Quote#Children
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child…
Quote byCharles Kingsley · 1819–1875
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65..
English (original)
If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.
— Charles Kingsley
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