• Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  French writer 1900-1944
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. understand
2. themselves
3. explaining
4. children
5. forever
6. things

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Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. by : Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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