• What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

  Georges Bernanos
  French writer 1888-1948
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. watchfulness
2. surrounds
3. knowing
4. hovered
5. hardly
6. around

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What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around. by : Georges Bernanos

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